H. C. Robbins Landon
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Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (born March 6, 1926) is a musicologist.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and studied music at Swarthmore College and Boston University. He subsequently moved to Europe where he worked as a music critic. From 1947 he did research in Vienna on Joseph Haydn, a composer on whom he would become a noted expert. His book Symphonies of Joseph Haydn was published in 1955, with the five volume Haydn: Chronicle and Works following at the end of the 1970s. He also edited a number of Haydn's works.
Robbins Landon has published work on other 18th century composers, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Antonio Vivaldi.
Writings
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- Symphonies of Joseph Haydn (1955)
- Beethoven: A Documentary Study (Thames & Hudson, 1974)
- Haydn: Chronicle and Works (Indiana University Press, 1976-1980)
- 1791: Mozart's Last Year (Thames & Hudson, 1988)
- Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque