"Few musical repertoires have attracted such a convenient and thorough compendium of knowledge." ―Early Music News "A. Peter Brown has performed an excellent service for devotees of early keyboard music, and for all students of eighteenth-century music . . . " ―Early Keyboard Journal "A. Peter Brown has created a unique compendium, discussing all of Haydn's works with keyboard, comparing them and placing them in a variety of contexts, historical, social and scholarly." ―Journal of the American Musicological Society " . . . stimulating . . . a book for which pianists . . . must be thankful." ―Journal of the American Liszt Society Haydn scholar A. Peter Brown offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the composer's keyboard works, encompassing the solo sonatas, keyboard trios, accompanied divertimentos, concertos, concertinos, and Klavierstücke. This new volume by Haydn scholar Brown examines new as well as established findings on Haydn's keyboard music. The study is cleverly organized by topic rather than chronologically and delves into such important issues as authenticity, dating, questions of keyboard idioms, and genre types. It also examines such subjects as Haydn as keyboard performer, instruments most appropriate for given works, and the influence on Haydn of the Viennese tradition and C. P. E. Bach. Those interested in the 18th- and early 19th-century keyboard idiom will want to investigate the lengthy bibliography, which includes many new items. This major study on the composer and on early keyboard music is highly recommended for large public libraries and for academic music collections. J. Richard Belanger, Susquehanna Univ. Lib., Selinsgrove, Pa. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. "This work is highly recommended for all larger public and academic libraries and smaller libraries with specialized music collections.2008"―Robert L. Wick, American Reference Book Annual 2008 vol. 39