The Masses of Joseph Haydn Quotes

“Joseph Haydn was a revolutionary. Those who used the nickname 'Papa Haydn' in the eighteenth century were ascribing to him a genuine fatherhood, not drawing a 'caricature' of a 'bewigged and old-fashioned' court officer, the image (to use Jens Peter Larsen's language) that the nineteenth century saw in its rearview mirror. Rising out of Baroque roots, Haydn spend his lifetime forging from his creative imagination the style that has come to be called 'Classical,' and he did so largely in geographic isolation.”
― Robert W. Demaree Jr., The Masses of Joseph Haydn