Content note : First edition with complete Critical Commentary and description of sources - With information on the genesis, Beethoven’s notation, metronome markings, and with the ground-breaking Performing Practice Commentary (online resource) - With two solo violin parts (Urtext and historically annotated)

Content note : Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind dictionary offers entries on composers, musicians/performers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a road map for advanced scholarship in the field

Content note : Chapter 25 investigates how Mozart composed. Useful for understanding phrasing, ideas, and structure in his music.

Content note : Joseph Haydn composed special music for musical clocks, and obviously did so in close cooperation with his colleague at the Esterhazy court, the court chaplain and librarian P. Primitivus Niemecz, who became well-known for his skills in building musical automata. Two flute clocks (from 1792 and 1793) bearing Niemeczs signature are extant, two others are attributed to him. A further flute clock, made by Johann Joseph Wiest, was on exhibition until 1804 in Deym's art gallery in Vienna, thus presenting Haydn's music to the public - whereas the Niemecz clocks never left private ownership during Haydn's lifetime. The five instruments have 38 musical pieces on their barrels: 18 original compositions by Haydn or arrangements he made of his own works, the remaining pieces probably provided by Niemecz who was also a musician and a pupil of Haydn.

Content note : Tracks 8 and 13 Haydn symphonies. Examples of pinned music from period flute clock makers trained by the Berlin school.