Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • 4 - Haydn’s Last Heroine: Hanne, The Seasons, and the Culture of Sensibility

  • Edited by Nancy November, University of Auckland
  • Book:
    Haydn Studies 2
    Published online:
    18 October 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 70-100

  • Summary

    Towards the end of his life, and at the height of his fame, Joseph Haydn composed two oratorios based on libretti by Baron Gottfried van Swieten. The Creation (1798) has enjoyed a continual life in the concert hall and has produced one of the most unwieldy bibliographies in Haydn scholarship. However, Haydn’s The Seasons (1801) has had no such luck. Many factors have contributed to its neglect, central among them a lingering belief that The Seasons suffers from a poor libretto and lacks the musical insight and innovation of the earlier oratorio. Scholarship on The Seasons remains minimal, and is often, though not uniformly, characterised by analytical musical discussion rather than critical analyses of how the oratorio responds to cultural and artistic phenomena of the eighteenth century.