Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase
By: texte établi et annoté par Daniel Muller, préface de Romain Rolland; avec deux planches hors texte et trois fac-similé.
Contributors: Carpani, Giuseppe, 1752-1825.; Winckler, Théophile Frédéric, 1771-1807.; Muller, Daniel, ed.; Schlichtegroll, Friedrich von, 1765-1822.
Series: Œuvres complètes de Stendhal
Publisher: H. Champion
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791; Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782
Notes: "Onze cents exemplaires sur papier vélin pur fil des papeteries de Voiron, numérotés de 136 à 1235. Exemplaire no 398."
Author's pseud., Stendhal, at head of title.
First edition published 1814 under pseud., L. A. C. Bombet, as "Lettres ... sur le célèbre compositeur J.h 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 last letter on Mozart and the letter on Metastasio are by Beyle. cf. p. lxix-lxxiii. The Life of Mozart, attributed by the editor 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.