Studies in Music History: Presented to H.C. Robbins Landon on His Seventieth Birthday

by Otto Biba (Editor)

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.

272 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1996

Reviews

[Silvio Curtis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Festschrift of short articles on the composer Joseph Haydn and the central European music of his time, that is the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, though a few chapters go earlier. Most of them deal with very technical details, which I couldn't follow much of, except one which was a generalizing essay on authenticity in music performance. The most interesting to me were the ones least about musicology and most about the social context of music: one publishing and commenting on a contract between Haydn and a music publisher in England, and one about the political maneuverings of the Freemasons (because Mozart's Magic Flute was involved in them). About half the book is in German, so I didn't bother to read those chapters as thoroughly.