Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven

In his early career, Beethoven was hailed as the only musician worthy to stand beside Haydn and Mozart. In this book, Daniel Heartz details the latter parts of the careers of Haydn and Mozart (who during the 1780s produced their most famous and greatest works) and describes Beethoven’s first decade in Vienna, during which he began composing by patterning his works on the two masters. The tumult and instability of the French Revolution serves as a vivid historical backdrop for the tale.