Author
Franz Joseph Haydn is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845–1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Music., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Franz Joseph Haydn’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“We may, with satisfaction, add to these notes the words to which Haydn has adapted his magnificent music in "The Creation." 'In native worth and honor clad, with beauty, courage, strength adorned...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Substantial quoted Haydn Creation lyrics spanning roughly 26 lines.
“We must all have felt it to be a privilege of priceless value, that we are born in an age, through which are transmitted the inspirations of Handel, Haydn”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“The symphony of Haydn gave us great pleasure, and of a kind to which we have become unaccustomed.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Music in New York." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 January 1845. · 18 January 1845
“We must all have felt it to be a privilege of priceless value, that we are born in an age, through which are transmitted the inspirations of Handel, Haydn”
Fuller, Margaret. "Music." New-York Daily Tribune, 31 January 1846. · 31 January 1846
“Haydn, Handel, Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, each in a different way, actually fulfilled vast desires of the soul”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mr. Fontana’s Concert." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 January 1846. · 3 January 1846
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“The other evening, while hearing the Creation, in the music of "There shoots the healing plant," I felt what I would ever feel for suffering souls...”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.