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3 unusual facts about Giuseppe Carpani


Giuseppe Carpani

To give one example, Carpani asserts that Haydn did not bring his mistress Luigia Polzelli to London with him in his journey of 1791 because she had died; in fact, she lived on for decades, was the recipient of letters from Haydn, and received a small pension from him.

Sonneck, Oscar (1926) Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries.

Haydn and folk music

Haydn's early biographer Giuseppe Carpani claimed that the adult Haydn even did field work, collecting folk songs from the people as did Bartók and Vaughan Williams over a century later.



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