A vivid portrait of Mozart and Haydn's greatest achievements and young Beethoven's works under their influence.

The first extended study of the combined reception of Haydn and Mozart in the long nineteenth century, this book generates new, holistic understandings of their

Situates the controversial narrative of 'The English Musical Renaissance' within its wider historical context.

For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point o