16: London in the 1790s
Piano by John Broadwood, London, 1795. Schubert Club, St. Paul, Minnesota
Videos
Example 16.3: Jan Ladislav Dussek, The Sufferings of the Queen of France, Eveliina Kytömäki, piano, on Youtube
Lecture by Christopher Hogwood: "At an Amateur Domestic Evening: Haydn, Symphony No. 104, 'London,' arranged by Salomon," at Gresham College
Portrait of Joseph Haydn by the English painter Thomas Hardy, 1792
Recordings
Examples 16.1 and 2: Haydn, Symphony No. 97, Orchestra of the 18th Century, cond. Franz Brüggen, on Youtube
Example 16.3: Jan Ladislav Dussek, The Sufferings of the Queen of France, Andreas Staier, piano (available on the Naxos Music Library); also on Youtube (with score)
See also "Audio and Video Recordings to Accompany Anthology" (click on left)
Facsimile
Haydn's Piano Sonata No. 62 (Hob. XVI-52), the autograph score at the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.200196590#seq-6
A parody of domestic music-making by James Gillray, 1810
Reading
Beeks, Graydon. "Haydn, Handel, and the Concerts of Antient Music," Haydn and His Contemporaries, ed. Sterling E. Murray (Ann Arbor, MI: Steglein, 2011), 28–38 Worldcat
Brown, A. Peter. The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), 243–300 Worldcat
Clark, Katelyn. "The London Pianist: Theresa Jansen and the English Works of Haydn, Dussek, and Clementi," Haydn, vol. 2.1 (2012)
Dussek at the piano, 1795. Portrait by Henri-Pierre Danloux
Davison, Alan. "The Iconography of an Emigré Musician: Henri-Pierre Danloux's 1795 Portrait of Jan Ladislav Dussek," Early Music 37 (2009), 175–86 http://em.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/04/27/em.cap016.abstract
Davison, Alan. "The Face of a Musical Genius: Thomas Hardy's Portrait of Joseph Haydn," Eighteenth-Century Music 6 (2009), 209–27
Engaging Haydn: Culture, Context, and Criticism, ed. Mary Hunter and Richard Will (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) Worldcat
Hanover Square, site of the concert room where most of Haydn's London symphonies were first performed
Girdham, Jane. English Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London: Stephen Storace at Drury Lane (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) Worldcat
Heartz, Daniel. Mozart, Haydn, and Early Beethoven, 1781–1802 (New York: Norton, 2009), 421–551 Worldcat
Horton, Julian. "John Field and the Alternative History of Concerto First-Movement Form," Music & Letters 92 (2011), 43–83
Illiano, Roberto, and Rohan Stewart-MacDonald. Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812): A Bohemian Composer en voyage through Europe (Bologna: Ut Orpheus, 2012) Worldcat
The Land of Opportunity: Joseph Haydn and Britain, ed. Richard Chesser and David Wyn Jones (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
H. C. Robbins Landon. Haydn: Chronicle and Works. Vol. 3: Haydn in England (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976) Worldcat
Haydn, Piano Sonata No. 62 (Hob. XVI-52), first page of the autograph score. Washington, Library of Congress
McVeigh, Simon. Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Worldcat
Plantinga, Leon. Clementi: His Life and Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977) Worldcat
Price, Curtis, Judith Milhous, and Robert D. Hume. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London, Volume 1: The King’s Theatre, Haymarket, 1778–1791 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) Worldcat
Rice, John A. "Did Haydn Attend the Handel Commemoration in Westminster Abbey?" Early Music 40 (2012), 73–80 http://em.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/1/73.short
The Handel Commemoration in Westminster Abbey, 1784
Rice, Paul F. British Music and the French Revolution (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) Worldcat
Ringer, Alexander. “Beethoven and the London Pianoforte School,” Musical Quarterly 56 (1970): 742-58 JSTOR
Sala, Massimiliano. Giovanni Battista Viotti: A Composer between Two Revolutions (Bologna: Ut Orpheus, 2006) Worldcat
Schroeder, David P. Haydn and the Enlightenment: The Late Symphonies and their Audience (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997) Worldcat
Stewart-MacDonald, Rohan. New Perspectives on the Keyboard Sonatas of Muzio Clementi (Bologna: Ut Orpheus, 2006) Worldcat
Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music (New York, Oxford University Press, 2005), vol. 2, 555–88 Worldcat
Woodfield, Ian. Salomon and the Burneys: Private Patronage and a Public Career (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) Worldcat
John Nixon, drawing of the musico Luigi Marchesi and the cellist James Cervetto participating in a concert at Hanover Square in 1789
Study Guide
Names, titles, and terms introduced in chapter 16
Johann Peter Salomon
Nancy Storace
Adalbert Gyrowetz
Joseph Haydn
L'anima del filosofo
Jan Ladislav Dussek
Prince Anton Esterházy
Haydn, Symphony No. 97 in C
London Pianoforte School
John Broadwood
Muzio Clementi
The Sufferings of the Queen of France
Therese Jansen
Haydn, Piano Sonata No. 62 in E flat, Hob. XVI: 52
Topic for discussion
Using examples derived from this chapter, comment on the newspaper report from 1793 quoted in the first paragraph, ending "Music as well as misery has fled for shelter to England."