Every great thinker kept notes. This one honors the composer who invented the symphony and the string quartet and spent a lifetime perfecting both.
This Haydn hardcover journal features an elegant silhouette portrait on the front cover and a biographical tribute on the back - the story of the man behind the art, printed where you'll see it every time you pick it up. Part of the Silhouettes of Sound collection. A distinctive gift for classical music lovers, musicians, and anyone who keeps their best ideas close at hand.
ABOUT JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
Haydn spent nearly thirty years as court composer to the Esterházy family in rural Hungary, isolated from the main currents of European musical life. He later said it was the making of him. Cut off from outside influence, he was forced to be original.
He was the most prolific and structurally innovative composer of his age. His 106 symphonies didn't just populate the concert repertoire - they defined what a symphony could be, establishing the forms and relationships between movements that Mozart and Beethoven would inherit and transform. His 68 string quartets did the same for chamber music. He didn't invent these forms from nothing, but he developed them with such consistency and intelligence that they emerged from his hands as something entirely new.
He was also genuinely beloved - warm, generous, and possessed of a dry humor that found its way into his music. His two great oratorios, The Creation and The Seasons, composed in his late sixties, were received with a rapture that moved him to tears at their premieres.
Beethoven studied under him, learned from him, and spent years being difficult about it. Haydn was gracious in return. Some teachers are like that.
PRODUCT FEATURES
- Hardcover with matte laminate finish
- Full wraparound portrait print
- Biographical tribute printed on back cover
- Flexible casewrap binding
- Perforated pages for clean tear-out
- 150 lined pages
- A tool for your ideas. A tribute to his.