New Material Histories of Music #: The Haydn Economy

Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century

New Material Histories of Music #: The Haydn Economy
Nicholas Mathew
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Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn' s career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities. With this ambitious book, musicologist Nicholas Mathew uses the remarkable career of Joseph Haydn to consider a host of critical issues: how we tell the history of the Enlightenment and Romanticism; the relation of late-eighteenth-century culture to nascent capitalism and European colonialism; and how the modern market and modern aesthetic values were-and remain-inextricably entwined. The Haydn Economy weaves a vibrant material history of Haydn' s late career, extending from the sphere of the ancient Esterhazy court to his frenetic years as an entrepreneur plying between London and Vienna, to his final decade as a venerable musical celebrity, where he witnessed the transformation of his legacy by a new generation of students and acolytes, Beethoven foremost among them. Ultimately, Mathew claims, Haydn' s historical trajectory compels us to ask what we might usefully retain from the cultural and political practices of European modernity- whether we can extract and preserve its moral promise from its moral failures. And it demands that we confront the deep economic histories that continue to shape our beliefs about music, sound, and material culture.

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"Tracing the conceptual overlap of aesthetics and economics as they developed in the eighteenth century, Mathew not only offers a startlingly original vision of Haydn and his relationship to ' commerce,' but also makes a major contribution to current debates about the nature and mission of music scholarship. Not just boundlessly informative, but compulsively readable and entertaining. " * W. Dean Sutcliffe, University of Auckland * "In this dazzling and timely book, Mathew reveals not only how Haydn' s music functioned in the late-Enlightenment economic landscape, but also how musical culture helped shape modern market society. As the field of music studies today ponders the future of canons and canonical works, The Haydn Economy shows us that we are far from done with Haydn and the eighteenth century-indeed, perhaps we are only just beginning to understand how this period' s deep-seated legacies continue to reverberate today. " * Emily I. Dolan, Brown University * "The Haydn Economy seems to signal a new era in musicology. This is a book about Haydn that is certain to draw in, rather than repel, those of us who think of colonialism and slavery before the symphony when we hear the words ' eighteenth-century Europe. ' An intellectual tour de force. " * Gavin Steingo, Princeton University * "Combining deft musical analysis and broad learning across disciplines, this book charts Haydn' s long career less as an evolution of style than as a series of orientations toward the newly mobilized cultural economies of Vienna and London. In Mathew' s account, Haydn achieved a major body of work that, unlike the Romantic differentiations of value that soon would follow him, managed to avoid setting aesthetic norms and market forces at odds. The Haydn Economy is a must-read for anyone interested in ' the most abundantly mediated musician of his age' or in the music and culture of the world in which he moved. " * James Chandler, University of Chicago *
Nicholas Mathew is professor of music and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Political Beethoven. With James Q. Davies, he is the series coeditor of the New Material Histories of Music series at the University of Chicago Press.
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ISBN-13: 9780226819846
Published: 30 Aug 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 23mm
Pages: 256

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