IntroductionPart I Haydn and Enlightened Though 1. Haydn and Shaftesbury: Music and Morality2. Pre-English Literary Influences3. The Lodge Zur wahren Eintracht'4. Opera, Rhetoric, and Rittergedichte5. String Quartets, Op. 33: A New and Special Way'6. Theory versus Practice: Aesthetics and Instrumental Music7. Symphonies Ascent: Pre-Paris to the Loge OlympiquePart II Audience Receptionand England 8. The Composer-Audience Relationship9. Haydn and the English AudiencePart III The Symphonies 10. Symphonic Intelligibility and Sonata Form11. Melodic Sources and Musical Images12. Symphonies and the Salomon ConcertsConclusionsBibliographyIndex