Classical Period Music (ca. 1750-1800 + Beethoven): A Guide to Research and Resources
This guide serves as a basic starting point to find key resources for studying, researching, and performing Classical period music (ca. 1750-1800 + Beethoven).
A fully-indexed bibliography of published (and selected unpublished) materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven maintained by the American Beethoven Society.
Composer Bibliographies, Research Guides & Companions
Oxford Online Bibliographies compile authoritatively selected and annotated citations for key reference works, collected correspondence, biographies, monographs, and articles relating to prominent composers.
Research guides provide detailed listings for a composer's known musical and literary works followed by annotated bibliographies of the secondary literature on the composer's œuvre arranged by genre and important topics in the composer's life, career, and reception history—plus other features such as a genealogies, chronologies, and indexes.
Companions collate major essays by established experts that address key aspects of the composer's career, creative work, style, and critical reception.
Chapters on Haydn and his contemporaries, his working environments in Eisenstadt and Eszterháza, the reception of his music, and a survey of the major genres in which Haydn wrote.
Comprehensive coverage of all of his important works, the reception of his music since his death, and the contexts which inform his work and his significance as a performer.