Great Masters: Haydn, His Life and Music. Great Courses/Teaching Company. (The Great Courses Fine Arts & Music)
This 2-dvd set (with a 37-page course guidebook) contains eight 45-minute lectures. The lectures are: 1) Introduction and Early Life; 2) The Lean Years and the Pre-Classical Style; 3) Haydn's Marriage and Esterhaza; 4) Esterhaza Continued; 5) The Classical String Quartet and the Classical Symphony; 6) London; 7) Beethoven, London Again, and Breakthrough; and 8) "The Creation," "The Seasons," and the End.