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Article: Haydn, Beethoven & old instruments.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 10, 1987
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HAYDN, BEETHOVEN & OLD INSTRUMENTS
GIVEN THE current rate of artisticproductivity, it is hard to realize that at one point in his life Franz Joseph Haydn was turning out three symphonies a year, plus a profusion of other music. For the past decades, scholars and musicologists have been slowly working their way through this overwhelming output--editing, publishing, and casting aside compositions ascribed to him by unscrupulous publishers in the past. As a result, Haydn has emerged as far more than the pleasant precursor of Mozart and Beethoven-- rather, as a composer of towering sensibilities who exploded the limits of "classicism,' an innovator who gave the ...