Haydn and Eighteenth-Century Patronage in Austria and Hungary

H. C. ROBBINS LANDON was educated at Swarthmore College and Boston University. He founded the Haydn Society in Boston in 1949 and subsequently settled in Vienna, where he became a member of the Zentralinstitut fur Mozartforschung (Salzburg) , a contributor to the British Broadcasting Corporation, and a contributor to the Neue Mozart Ausgabe. He has held visiting professorships at Queen’s College (New York) and the University of California, and, from 1971, was Honorary Professorial Fellow, University College Cardiff (South Wales). Since 1978 he has been John Bird Professor of Music, University College Cardiff.