In the last 40 years, Fanny Hensel’s reputation has evolved. Once seen merely as Felix Mendelssohn’s sister, Hensel is now regarded as an idiosyncratic and innovative composer whose music warrants recognition. Scholarship ...

This thesis approaches Haydn’s sonata-form procedures from the perspective of the eighteenth-century listener, asking, if a moment is allegedly “witty” according to modern analysts, would Haydn's contemporary audience have ...