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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

Name: 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
Author: Stendhal

byStendhal· 1820

Language: Français
Pages: 320
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Translation, by R. Brewin, of "Lettres sur le célèbre compositeur Jh. Haydn [etc.]" The life of Haydn is, in the main, a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine (Milan, 1812) The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Beyle to Schlichtegroll, is practically a reproduction of Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrystostome-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart (Paris, 1801) with one anecdote aded from another source. The letter on Metastasio, according to P. Hazard, borrows largely from Baretti. cf. M.H. Beyle. Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase; texte étalbi et annoté par Daniel Muller, préface de Romain Rolland (Paris, Champion, 1914); P. Hazard. Vie de Stendhal (Paris, 1927) The notice of Mozart, attributed by Muller to C. Winckler, is by T. F. Winckler. cf. Fétis, Biog. univ. des musiciens. 2. éd. viii, 476; Quérard, France litt., A. Schurig, Wolfgang Amade Mozart (Leipzeig, 1923) I, 11 "Canon cancrizans a 3 voce. Haydn": p. [129]

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Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: , US: , French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. Stendhal proclaimed himself an egotist; the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism". Stendhal is also known for De l'amour, his work on "passionate love" in which the concept of "crystallization" was invented. The book was mostly ignored after publishing, but has been lauded posthumously as one of the first "modern" attempts at understanding love. Sharon Brehm, a president of the American Psychological Association, has called Stendhal "a first-rate psychologist before the official term was coined".

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