Haydn, Joseph. (1732–1809) The Creation. An Oratorio...Adapted for Voices and Piano Forte by Muzio ClementiUpright folio (34 cm). 201 pp. Engraved throughout. No PN. A good wide margined copy, bound in simple brown paper boards, spine covering mostly perished, endpages loose. One of the highpoints of the Western musical canon, the Oratorio with a libretto by Gottfried von Swieten, was recognized from its earliest performances as a masterwork of the first order (see New Grove, 8: 346, 347, 358). First performed at the Palais Schwarzenburg in Vienna on April