Musicology Annotation << Back Masses of the 18th Century and Haydn’s Masses in the Works of Foreign Musicologists Alexey G. Baranov In the paper Russian and foreign of masses by Joseph Haydn are reviewed. The author presents the positions of the major foreign musicologists who were engaged in studying of creativity of Haydn (H. C. Robbins Landon, L. Finscher) added by information from Grove’s British encyclopedia, monographies about Mozart by H. Abert and A. Einstein and of some articles concerned with local questions. Key words: 18th century music, sacred music, Mass, Joseph Haydn. E-mail: alexcond121@mail.ru