Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!mf From: mf@cornell.UUCP (mf) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: (Eight) Nocturnes for the King of Naples Message-ID: <858@cornell.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 07:39:10 EST Article-I.D.: cornell.858 Posted: Sun Dec 30 07:39:10 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 03:00:38 EST Reply-To: (Uucp) cornell!mf (ARPA) mf@cornell (Bitnet) MF AT CRNLCS Organization: Cornell U Lines: 16 Keywords: F. J. Haydn, E. Wilson Haydn wrote "Eight Nocturnes for the King of Naples." I looked for a recording of it, but could not find any even in such place as Tower records in NYC. It is not listed in the Penguin Guide (which is pretty poor on Haydn...) but two recordings are mentioned in its French counterpart, which, by the way, is so much better than the Penguin. So I have not heard the piece. Edmund Wilson wrote "Nocturnes for the King of Naples", which has 8 chapters; each of which seems to have some formal structure, beside interesting shifts in style. It is suffused with a dreamy, autumnal (or nocturnal?) atmosphere. It is available in Penguin (ignore the ugly and vulgar cover). Does anybody know both works to the extent of pointing how Wilson's novel mirrors its musical counterpart?