Din  nou: TTC and Robert Greenberg.

De data aceasta, insa, este despre viata lui Haydn, 15 lectii de aproximativ jumatate de ora. Haydn era super apreciat – desi talentul lui s-a dezvoltat destul de tarziu. Aveam peste 50 de ani, cand englezii, vazand ca sponsorul lui Haydn, printul de Esterhazy, nu-l lasa sa plece de la curtea lui, se gandesc chiar sa-l rapeasca si sa-l aduca in Londra:

By the mid 1780s, most of Haydn’s works were immediately published, then heard across Europe and, for that matter, North America as well. Haydn’s music was embraced in Spain, adored in Italy and France as well as in Germany and Austria. The English in particular worshiped – and that is not too strong a word – worshiped Haydn’s music. Between 1781 and 1787, the English Publishing Firm of William Forester published 129 works by Haydn, of which 82 were symphonies, for which Haydn btw received a beaucoup bucks.

Starting 1783, various English concert societies began inviting Haydn to come over in England to conduct and compose, hang out and get very rich. Unfortunately, and much to Haydn’s unhappiness, he had to decline any and all such offers to travel abroad. There was no chance that Prince Nicholas ” the big shot” – Esterhazy would grant his capel maestro such an extended leave of absence [.....]

[Printul Esterhazy incerca sa-l tina pe Haydn pentru curtea lui, deoarece era clar ca faima lui Haydn l-ar fi determinat sa nu se mai intoarca, nici la monotonia din palatul Esterhazy, dar nici la sotia lui cu care nu se intelegea deloc.]

Haydn’s popularity in England during the late 1780s was such that the press saw his position as little better than imprisonment. Even so far as to suggest that Haydn BE KIDNAPPED and brought to London. I kid you not. The following appeared in the London Review: “There is something very distressing to the liberal mind in the history of Haydn. This wonderful man, who is the Shakespeare of music, and the triumph of the age in which we live is doomed to reside in the court of a miserable German prince, who is once incapable of rewarding him and unworthy of the honor. Haydn, the simplest, as well as the greatest of men, is resigned to his condition and is content to live in a place little better than a dungeon, subject to the dominant spirit of a petty lord and a clamorous spirit of a scolding wife.”

My my – the word DOES get around…..

String Quartet in C Major, Opus 33, nr. 3, “Pasarea”

Tags: music, passion