Transcript: Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin: Haydn Made Easy

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ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
09-30-2009
Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin: Haydn Made Easy

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Joseph Haydn spent much of his career in service to nobility, away from the musical limelight. The composer told a biographer this: I was cut off from the world. There was no one within my vicinity to make me unsure of myself or to persecute me; and so I had to become original.

Marc-Andre Hamelin, a pianist, has just released the second album in a series of Haydn sonatas.

And our reviewer Tom Manoff says Hamelin has a special ability to reveal Haydn's originality.

TOM MANOFF: The word that comes to mind listening to ...

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