The Seasons (Haydn) The Seasons (Haydn) The Seasons (German: "Die Jahreszeiten"), Hob. XXI:3), is an oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801. Haydn was led to write "The Seasons" by the great success of his previous oratorio "The Creation" (1798), 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 (among other things commissioning Mozart's reorchestration of Handel's "Messiah"). Van Swieten's libretto
The Men Who Make the Music Pilmer, webmaster of the official Devo website, indicated a DVD release by MVD later in the year. The DVD was released the following August, including a bonus feature of Devo's 1996 reunion show at the Sundance Film Festival. A concert film of Devo on their 1979 tour of Japan was also titled "The Men Who Make the Music", and features live performances of "Secret Agent Man", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Too Much Paranoias", "Uncontrollable Urge", "Mongoloid" and "Jocko Homo", filmed at Nippon Budokan. The performance of "Red Eye" from this show is also on the official "The Men Who