Studies in music history : presented to H.C. Robbins Landon on his seventieth birthday / edited by Otto Biba & David Wyn Jones

London ; New York : Thames and Hudson, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., facsims., music ; 27 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index, Includes some text in German. Contents: Editors' Preface / Otto Biba and David Wyn Jones -- 'The music very good indeed': Scarlatti's Tolomeo et Alessandro recovered / Malcolm Boyd -- Haydn's Pastorellas: Genre, Dating and Transmission in the early Church works / Geoffrey Chew -- The Sublime, the Beautiful and the Ornamental: English Aesthetic Currents and Haydn's London Symphonies / A. Peter Brown -- The Contract between Joseph Haydn and Frederick Augustus Hyde (1796) / Albi Rosenthal -- In praise of arrangements: the 'Symphony Quintetto' / Christopher Hogwood -- From Artaria to Longman & Broderip: Mozart's music on sale in London / David Wyn Jones -- Die Wiener Freimaurer unter Kaiser Leopold II.: Mozarts Zauberflote als emblematische Standortbestimmung / Walther Brauneis -- Nachrichten uber Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn und Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in der Sammlumg der handschriftlichen Biographien der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien / Otto Biba -- Musikerportraits in der Sammlung Lavater / Gerda Mraz. Summary: On March 6, 1996, H. C. Robbins Landon, one of the world's leading experts on composers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, celebrated his seventieth birthday. To mark this event friends and professional colleagues in Europe and the USA have contributed scholarly studies to this commemorative volume. The range of their subject-matter relates closely to the dedicatee's own special interests, and the contributions (some in English, some in German) reflect the esteem in which H. C. Robbins Landon is held internationally. An expert on the composers of the 18th and early 19th centuries, H.C. Robbins Landon is renowned for his ability to communicate the excitement of discovery to a wide audience. This volume contains scholarly studies in English and German covering a range of subjects of interest to the dedicatee. The studies in English include a recently rediscovered manuscript copy of a Domenico Scarlatti opera, Haydn's early Pastorellas, works by Mozart marketed in London by Longman and Broderip, Haydn's contract with his London publisher and an appreciation of H.C. Robbins as founder of the Haydn Society. The studies in German include information about the Haydn brothers and Mozart, freemasonry in Vienna under Emperor Leopold II, the interpretation of music in the 18th and 19th centuries, portraits of musicians in the Lavater Collection (Austrian National Library) and musical manuscripts in the collections of monasteries and cathedrals in Bavaria. Subjects: Landon, H. C. Robbins (Howard Chandler Robbins) 1926-2009, Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809 - Criticism and interpretation, Music - 18th century - History and criticism, Music - 19th century - History and criticism, Music - Austria - History and criticism, Composition (Music) - History, Festschriften, Music, History, Composition (Music), MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music ; 18th century ; History and criticism ; Austria ; 19th century, Haydn, Joseph. Language: English, German.