| H. C. Robbins Landon | |
|---|---|
| Born | Howard Chandler Robbins Landon 6 March 1926 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | 20 November 2009 Rabastens, Tarn, France |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | University of Boston |
| Genres | Biography |
| Subjects | Classical composers |
Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (March 6, 1926 – November 20, 2009[1]) was an American musicologist.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and studied music at Swarthmore College and Boston University. He subsequently moved to Europe where he worked as a music critic. From 1947 he undertook research in Vienna on Joseph Haydn, a composer on whom he became an authority. His book Symphonies of Joseph Haydn was published in 1955, and the five volume Haydn: Chronicle and Works followed at the end of the 1970s. He also edited a number of Haydn's works.
Robbins Landon published work on other 18th century composers, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Antonio Vivaldi. He coined the term barococo.
In 1994 a controversy erupted over the appearance of various piano sonatas which Robbins Landon at first declared to be newly discovered Haydn works, but then concluded were fakes.[2]
He received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 1992.
He was married twice: his first wife Christa died in a plane crash in 1977. His second wife Else Radant, from whom he was separated, survived him. He lived in France in the latter years of his life, where he died aged 83 on November 20, 2009[1] in Rabastens.
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