The famous American musicologist and Haydn biographer, H.C. Robbins Landon, died last Friday in France. He was 83 years old.

Robbins Landon, born in 1926 in Boston, USA, rediscovered en reconstructed many Haydn operas. He founded the Haydn Society in Boston.

He moved to Europe do to research, notalbly on Joseph Haydn, but also on Mozart. He wrote the standard work “Haydn, Chronicle and Works”. Next to his scientific research, he also wrote accessible and popular books about Haydn and Mozart.

[source: www.nrc.nl]