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The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna

Followed by the Life of Mozart, with Observations on Metastasio, and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy

The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna( )
Author: Stendhal,
Series title:Cambridge Library Collection - Music Ser.
ISBN:978-1-108-06197-1
Publication Date:Aug 2013
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $58.99
Book Description:

Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, is remembered today for such novels as Le Rouge et le Noir. Involving audacious plagiarism, these early works on music originally appeared in French in 1814 under the pseudonym Louis-Alexandre-César Bombet. This English translation was published in 1817.

Book Details
Pages:518
Detailed Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Classical
Biography & Autobiography / Music
Music / Ethnic
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.46 x 8.424 x 1.131 Inches
Book Weight:1.43 Pounds
Author Biography
Stendhal (Author)
One of the great French novelists of the nineteenth century, Stendhal (pseudonym for Marie-Henri Beyle) describes his unhappy youth with sensitivity and intelligence in his autobiographical novel The Life of Henri Brulard. It was written in 1835 and 1836 but published in 1890, long after his death. He detested his father, a lawyer from Grenoble, France, whose only passion in life was making money. Therefore, Stendhal left home as soon as he could.

Stendhal served with Napoleon's army in the campaign in Russia in 1812, which helped inspire the famous war scenes in his novel The Red and the Black (1831). After Napoleon's fall, Stendhal lived for six years in Italy, a country he loved during his entire life. In 1821, he returned to Paris for a life of literature, politics, and love affairs.

Stendhal's novels feature heroes who reject any form of authority that would restrain their sense of individual freedom. They are an interesting blend of romantic emotionalism and eighteenth-century realism. Stendhal's heroes are sensitive, emotional individuals who are in conflict with the society in which they live, yet they have the intelligence and detachment to analyze their society and its faults.

Stendhal was a precursor of the realism of Flaubert. He once described the novelist's function as that of a person carrying a mirror down a highway so that the mirror would reflect life as it was, for all society.

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