an music without words ever be funny? Joseph Haydn’s music suggests it can be. Haydn is the acme of the wittiness of late-18thcentury music in the way he soothes and startles his audience from one moment to the next, as in the contrast between the nursery-rhyme banality of the tune that opens thwack shocks us out of our reverie.
No laughing matter?
Aug 09, 2022
2 minutes
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