Tuesday, January 6, 2009

SS 2009 Course: Homage to Haydn

Course 131
Date: 19–23 January
Time: 3.30 pm
Full Price: R270,00 Staff: R135,00 Reduced: R70,00

Homage to Haydn
Presented by Dr Barry Smith, organist, conductor and musicologist, and Rodney Trudgeon, broadcaster, Fine Music Radio.


Josef Haydn has usually suffered the fate of being coupled with the name of Mozart. It is always ‘The Age of Mozart and Haydn’, never ‘Haydn and Mozart’, just as we always hear of ‘Bach and Handel’ never ‘Handel and Bach’. It has been the whim of fate to place Haydn on a slightly inferior pedestal when, in fact, he was one of the most prolific and innovative composers of his time. Not for nothing is he called the ‘father’ of the symphony, having produced 104 of these between 1757 and 1795. But there is much more to Haydn than great symphonic music. During his long life of 77 years he also composed operas, masses, cantatas, oratorios, concertos, chamber music, vocal and keyboard music. From this vast array of splendid music Rodney Trudgeon and Barry Smith have selected outstanding recordings for this course, marking the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death.

Please note that this course does not include live performances.

LECTURE TITLES
  1. Haydn vs. Mozart: a 21st century personal perspective. (Rodney Trudgeon)
  2. Symphonies and their ‘father’. (Rodney Trudgeon)
  3. Chamber: Haydn in small scale. (Dr B Smith)
  4. Music for a prince: opera and instrumental. (Dr B Smith & Rodney Trudgeon)
  5. Choral: fruits of an old age. (Dr B Smith)

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