Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase ...
Contributors: Carpani, Giuseppe, 1752-1825.; Winckler, Théophile Frédéric, 1771-1807.; Schlichtegroll, Friedrich von, 1765-1822.; Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio, 1719-1789.; Martineau, Henri, 1882-1958, ed.
Series: On cover: Le livre du Divan
Publisher: Le Divan
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791; Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782
Notes: Author's pseud., Stendhal, at head of title.
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On cover: Révision du texte et préface par Henri Martineau.
First edition published 1814 under the pseud. L. A. C. Bombet, as "Lettres sur le célèbre compositeur Joseph Haydn [etc.]"
The life of Haydn is, in the main, plagiarized from G. Carpani's Le Haydine (Milan, 1812)  The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Beyle 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 letter on Metastasio, according to P. Hazard. borrows largely from Baretti.  cf. M. H. Beyle, Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase; texte établi et annoté par Daniel Muller, préface de Romain Rolland (Paris, Champion, 1914); P. Hazard.  Vie de Stendhal (Paris, 1927) p. 127.  The notice of Mozart, attributed by Muller to C. Winckler, is by T. F. Winckler. cf. Fétis, Biog. univ. des musiciens. 2. éd. VIII, 476; Quérard, France litt.; A. Schurig, Wolfgang Amade Mozart (Leipzig, 1923) I, 11.