The volume presents expanded versions of papers from the symposium "Reassessing Haydn's Sacred
Music" co-sponsored by the International Joseph Haydn Private Foundation Eisenstadt and Haydn
Society of North America in Eisenstadt in June 2023. The conference featured scholars from
Austria the United States Germany Great Britain Hungary Japan and Slovenia speaking on
topics of liturgical theological and stylistic influences on Haydn's sacred repertoire
aesthetics sources reception and Haydn's impact on later sacred music in Eisenstadt and
abroad. Other chapters on Haydn's sacred music that were not part of the conference are also
included along with three studies on interrelationships among the Viennese "triad" Haydn
Mozart and Beethoven.
