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Haydn - Nelson Mass: How Haydn’s greatest work cemented his friendship with a British hero
Tonight Jane Jones presents a superb performance of a work originally called the 'Mass for Troubled Times'.
Haydn’s mighty choral work is now forever associated with Admiral Horatio Nelson’s victory over Napoleon.
The Nelson Mass according to Joseph Haydn’s biographer is arguably the composer’s “greatest single composition”. It is a work that was written at a time of intense fear for the future of Austria, whose citizens were not in the best of spirits.
In 1797-1798 Napoleon Bonaparte had defeated the Austrian army in four major battles, even crossing the Alps and threatening Vienna itself.
The prevailing political and financial instability even impacted the musical forces that Haydn had at his disposal in the Esterhazy court where he spent some 30 years of his career.
Haydn’s patrons had dismissed their wind players and the composer was left
