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Across the divide: currents of musical thought in Europe, c. 1790–1810

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This is the final chapter in my 798-page edited volume The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music. It takes a simultaneously broad and focused approach to the period 1790-1810, examining themes such as the rise in Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven’s reputation in this period (including their own contributions to historically-based activities) and issues of imitation and popularity. A number of writings from 1790-1810 are for the first time given serious scholarly consideration.

In addition to writing this chapter, I commissioned as editor almost all of the chapters and lengthy appendices for the volume as a whole (after initial planning by David Wyn Jones), edited all of them, wrote the preface, compiled the index, and co-translated Claudia Zenck’s 50-page chapter ‘German Opera from Reinhard Keiser to Peter Winter’.