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(UK) H. C. Robbins Landon: Musicologist celebrated for his work on Haydn and Mozart -- Remembered
Published: Jan 10, 2010 - 10:16 PM
“Some lucky composers attract scholars of such assiduity of purpose that their names become linked from then on: one thinks of Henry-Louis de La Grange's work on Mahler or David Cairns' on Berlioz. That Joseph Haydn is now universally accepted as one of the great composers is down largely to the spadework of H. C. Robbins Landon – the music had long since slipped from view when he first began the pioneering research which would restore the reputation Haydn had enjoyed in his own lifetime.
Landon's first encounter with Haydn's music had occurred much earlier, when his music teacher put on a recording of the Symphony No 93 (the first of the 12 "London" Symphonies that made the composer a hero in the British capital in the early 1790s). The 13-year-old was astonished to learn that there were 103 more symphonies from the same source and determined to find out more. ..“
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