Joseph Haydn

Standard Name: Haydn, Joseph

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Cowden Clarke	Vincent Novello , MCC 's father, was a music teacher, choirmaster, composer, and music publisher, who played the organ for the Portuguese Embassy Chapel at South Street, Grosvenor Square, London, for twenty-six years. There...
Friends, Associates	Anne Hunter	Among Anne's personal friends and guests at her gatherings were Elizabeth Carter , Mary Delany , Elizabeth Montagu , Hester Thrale , her niece by marriage Joanna Baillie (whom she first met when Baillie came...
Leisure and Society	Josephine Butler	While in Oxford, JB , along with three of her husband's colleagues, formed a string quartet to study and perform the music of Haydn , Mozart , and Beethoven . Petrie, Glen. A Singular Iniquity: The Campaigns of Josephine Butler. Macmillan, 1971. 36
Literary responses	Dora Carrington	When artist and critic Henry Lamb viewed the image of the last, he apparently heard or saw music in it. He informed her: I think there is something so very good about your head of...
Occupation	Fanny Holcroft	FH was a musician before she was a writer. She was performing for family guests by 1798, when her father's diary says a great deal about her ability, and mentions her being the principal performer...
Performance of text	Ruth Padel	RP 's new words for Haydn 's quartet Opus 51 was first performed. They are titled Seven Words and an Earthquake. Padel, Ruth. “It’s over”. The Guardian, 19 Apr. 2014, p. Review 19.
Author summary	Anne Hunter	AH was admired during the Romantic period for her poetry, most of it songs and ballads. She wrote her own music for some; Haydn set many others. She also wrote occasional poetry of many kinds...
Publishing	Charlotte Smith	Many of CS 's songs were published here and there, with music by various composers: John Hindle , William Horsley , William Beale , John Relfe , Pasquale Anfossi , Giovanni Paisiello , Ignaz Pleyel , and Joseph Haydn . Londry, Michael. “On the Use of First-Line Indices for Researching English Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century, c. 1660-1830, with Special Reference to Women Poets”. The Library, Vol. 5 , No. 1, Mar. 2004, pp. 12-38. 30-1
Textual Features	Naomi Jacob	Characters in this book (stereotypes all, according to Paul Bailey) include Haydn , Mozart (a little, white-faced genius), Casanova (possessor of a strange, twisted smile), and the Young Pretender . qtd. in Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 155
Textual Production	Anne Hunter	O Tuneful Voice, the little song which Grigson calls AH 's most celebrated, was said to be a farewell gift from her to Haydn . Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009. 58, 121-22
Textual Production	Ellis Cornelia Knight	Several of her poems were set to music. The Moment of Victory, published in the 1800s, whose musical score was composed by William Rook , was written by her. The Battle of the Nile...
Textual Production	Anne Hunter	Haydn 's Six Original Canzonettas were advertised for sale with a dedication to AH , who was the anonymous author of its lyrics. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009. 50-1
Textual Production	Anne Hunter	AH wrote a libretto in English for Haydn 's oratorio The Creation, following its first performance in England in March 1800 with an inferior libretto translated from the German one. Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009. 69
Textual Production	Anne Hunter	AH first became really well-known for My mother bids me bind my hair, which she wrote to an air by Ignace Joseph Pleyel but which was later set by Joseph Haydn and printed as...
Textual Production	Anne Hunter	For Haydn 's Second Set of Six Original Canzonettas, published in August 1795, Caroline Grigson says AH provided text for only one piece, but helped select the rest. Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009. 57-8

Timeline

January 1791

The musician Joseph Haydn arrived in England.

Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.

2nd ser. 2 (1791): 230-1

1800

At a Salisbury music festival, a concert in the cathedral featuring work by Handel and Haydn drew an audience of 970.

Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

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Texts

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 25th ed., Akademische Druck, 1966.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 25th ed., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911.