| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| Haydn, Shakespeare, and the Rules of Originality | 3 |
| The Creation, Haydn's Late Vocal Music, and the Musical Sublime | 57 |
| Haydn's London Piano Trios and His Salomon String Quartets: Private vs. Public? | 103 |
| The Symphony as Pindaric Ode | 131 |
| Representing the Aristocracy: The Operatic Haydn and Le pescatrici | 154 |
| Haydn as Orator: A Rhetorical Analysis of His Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Hob.XVI:42 | 201 |
| The Demise of Philosophical Listening: Haydn in the Nineteenth Century | 255 |
| A Yearbook of Music in Vienna and Prague 1796 | |
| I | Special Friends, Protectors, and Connoisseurs in Vienna | |
| II | Virtuosos and Amateurs in Vienna | |
| III | Amateur Concerts | 289 |
| Remarks on the Development of the Art of Music in Germany in the Eighteenth Century (1801) | 321 |
| Joseph Haydn's Library: An Attempt at a Literary-Historical Reconstruction | 395 |
| Index | 463 |
| List of Contributors | 473 |