The Haydn economy : music, aesthetics, and commerce in the late eighteenth century

Nicholas Mathew

Introduction. Ringing coins ; Haydn and the city ; Media, motion, connection ; Commerce, interest, objects, work, value -- Commerce. Importation of Haydn, Warehouse aesthetics ; Mobility and credit ; A resonant world ; New addresses ; Music before the cliché -- Interest. Taking note(s) ; Psychic investments ; Disinterest and boredom ; Making musical interest ; The fate of interest -- Objects. Little boxes ; Pursuit of objects ; Objects, animals, people ; Haydn's musical objects ; Surface fantasies -- Work. Chapel master, chapel servant ; Liberty, work, stress ; The work of comedy ; Work, property, works ; The creation concept ; The industry concept ; Working concepts -- Epilogue: Value (1808). Of time and fashion; Romantic infrastructures ; Haydn recalled ; Gold is a mighty thing