The Seasons (Haydn) a trick on her rich suitor) to the uplifting (as in several large-scale choruses praising God for the beauty of nature). The composition process was arduous for Haydn, in part because his health was gradually failing and partly because Haydn found van Swieten's libretto to be rather taxing. Haydn took two years to complete the work. Like "The Creation", "The Seasons" had a dual premiere, first for the aristocracy whose members had financed the work (Schwarzenberg palace, Vienna, 24 April 1801), then for the public (Redoutensaal, Vienna, 19 May). The oratorio was considered a clear success, but not a success
The Creation of the World and Other Business over Britain and Europe between 1969 and 1974. Miller reworked the play into a musical, "Up From Paradise", which opened in 1974 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2004, Citizens of the Universe's production of Creation of the World and Other Business was banned from playing at Greenville Technical College. In 2014, the Theater Department at Orange Coast College put on a rock and roll jukebox musical version of the play. The Creation of the World and Other Business The Creation of the World and Other Business is a play by Arthur Miller first performed in 1972.