Summary: "Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (Part 1)" Haydn was led to write The Seasons by the great success of his previous oratorio The Creation, which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe. The libretto for The Seasons was prepared for Haydn, just as with The Creation, by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an Austrian nobleman who had also exercised an important influence on the career of Mozart. Van Swieten's libretto was based on extracts from the long English poem "The Seasons" by James Thomson (1700–1748), which had been published in 1730. Detail at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/haydn_jahreszeiten_ff_06_se_etc [First time on our podcasting channel]
