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.music.classical,net.motss Subject: (Eight) Nocturnes for the King of Naples Message-ID: <853@cornell.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 21:51:56 EST Article-I.D.: cornell.853 Posted: Sat Dec 29 21:51:56 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 01:46:24 EST Reply-To: (Uucp) cornell!mf (ARPA) mf@cornell (Bitnet) MF AT CRNLCS Organization: Cornell U Lines: 15 Keywords: F. J. Haydn, E. Wilson Xref: watmath net.music.classical:739 net.motss:1386 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?