BARON GOTTFRIED VAN SWIETEN AS J. HAYDN’S LIBRETTIST
The article is devoted to the personality and activity of the baron Gottfried van Swieten. As the patron and the public figure of the Age of Enlightenment he played a noticeable role in fortunes of composers of the First Viennese School (J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven) and first of all remained in the music history as J. Haydn´s librettist. Appealing to classical English literature, baron became the founder of new type of the libretto, which formed the basis of Haydn´s oratorios "Creation" and "Seasons". The author deduces a history of creation of the libretto of oratorios, compares primary sources and the end results, specifies authorship of primary sources, reveals specifics of construction of the poetic text and discloses the new ideological and semantic accents introduced in the known plots which produced by ideology of Enlightenment. The name of the author of a source text of the libretto of the oratorio "Creation" is introduced in native scientific use for the first time.