The life of Haydn
Subtitle: in a series of letters written at Vienna : followed by the life of Mozart : with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of music in France and Italy
By: translated from the French of L.A.C. Bombet ; with notes by the author of the Sacred melodies.
Contributors: Carpani, Giuseppe, 1752-1825.; Gardiner, William, 1770-1853.; Brewin, Robert; Schlichtegroll, Friedrich.; Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio, 1719-1789.; Winckler, Théophile Frédéric, 1771-1807.
Publisher: J. Murray
Published: 1817
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Haydn, Joseph, -- 1732-1809.; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, -- 1756-1791.; Metastasio, Pietro, -- 1698-1782.; Music -- France.; Music -- Italy.
Work titles: Lettres écrites de Vienne en Autriche sur le célèbre compositeur J. Haydn.
Notes: Author of the Sacred melodies = William Gardiner.

The life of Haydn is, in the main, a plagiarism of G. Carpani's La Haydine (Milan, 1812).  The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Stendhal to Schlichtegroll, is practically a reproduction of Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrysostome-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart (Paris, 1801), with one anecdote added from another source.  The last letter of the Mozart and the letter on Metastasio are attributed to Stendhal, although the latter borrows largely from G.M.A. Baretti.  Cf. N.U.C.

Translation by Robert Brewin of: Lettres écrites de Vienne en Autriche sur le célèbre compositeur J. Haydn.