The Viennese minor-key symphony in the age of Haydn and Mozart / Matthew Riley.
In late eighteenth-century Vienna and the Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies were written. Their distinctive stormy character, nervous energy and intense pathos make them a unique phenomenon.
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- The Viennese minor-key symphony
- Imperial court composers : Wagenseil, Gassmann, Ordonez
- Vanhal to 1771 : five first movements
- Two subgeneric conventions : the contrapuntal minuet, the stormy finale
- Studies in Haydn's minor-key symphonies 1763-1772
- Vanhal's new paths : four later symphonies
- Modal reversal and characteristic symphonies
- Mozart and the minor-key symphony.