"In this publication the biographical chapters have been abridged and adapted from those previously published in H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works (London and Bloomington, Ind. 1976-80) and Haydn: a documentary study (London and New York 1981); the chapters devoted to Haydn's music have been specially written for this publication by David Wyn Jones"--T.p. verso.

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