Joseph Haydn

Dated 1 June 1790 in the autograph manuscript, Haydn wrote the Sonata in E-flat major for Marianne von Gennzinger, with whom he was in close personal contact and also played music. She was very taken...

Among Haydn's piano sonatas, the great Sonata in E-flat-major is particularly popular. It was composed in 1794 during Haydn's second stay in London where he became acquainted with the new English fort...

The piano sonatas in this volume were presumably written for teaching purposes and probably even before Haydn's appointment to the court of Prince Esterházy in 1761. The designation 'Little early Sona...

Joseph Haydn's popular Piano Sonata in D major comes from a group of six sonatas which Haydn had published as a collection by the Viennese publisher Artaria in 1780. The edition was dedicated to the s...

This Haydn sonata has previously not been available in the Henle catalogue as an individual Urtext edition. Nevertheless, it numbers among Haydn's famous piano works. It was written in 1789 (thus maki...

The revision of the three-volume edition of Haydn's piano sonatas also appears in a version without fingerings. Whoever wishes to study the Classical sonata canon in 'pure' Urtext, free from added fin...

Haydn's c-minor Sonata is shot through by a passionate, dark, at times sullen mood. It may be regarded as the Viennese classicist's own 'Appassionata' - a great triumph! It is almost inconceivable tha...

Who is not familiar with Haydn's C major Sonata, with its fanfare-like, staccato triadic opening? Lesser-known, but at least equally charming, are the cantabile central movement and playful finale. Th...

Only a few of Haydn's piano sonatas are in the minor mode, and they are all sombre and defiant in tone. This famous sonata in e minor opens with an impatient and insistent motif in what is surely one...

The b-minor Sonata is part of a group of six piano sonatas which, according to Haydn’s own handwritten catalogue of works, was composed in 1776. The autograph has not survived, and the first edition o...

Haydn’s Sonata in g minor stems from the time between the late 1760s and the early 1770s, when the composer was music director at the Esterházy court. The time and circumstances of its genesis cannot...

Haydn's piano sonatas are indispensable in the moderately difficult piano repertoire - not just because of their sheer playability, but also because of their humour and inventiveness. Besides several...

The works in this volume show the development of keyboard instruments in an exemplary manner: the early works were intended for harpsichord, two of which were for an instrument with the so-called 'Vie...

The works in this volume show the development of keyboard instruments in an exemplary manner: the early works were intended for harpsichord, two of which were for an instrument with the so-called 'Vie...

In 1784 Joseph Haydn dedicated three piano sonatas to Princess Marie Esterházy in which the composer surprisingly turned to a two-movement form. This is also the case with the Sonata in G major Hob. X...

With this Urtext edition of easy original dances, minuets and marches by Joseph Haydn, young piano pupils will surely find their way into the extensive piano oeuvre of this great master of Viennese Cl...

In contrast to Mozart, Haydn was not a keyboard virtuoso. He certainly conducted his orchestral works from the harpsichord, and also performed his own piano sonatas, but any ambition to be a concertiz...

Haydn's last piano work is also considered to be his most famous single work for this instrument. The minor theme is filled with emotional depth: 'a melancholy andante in f minor, with variations, as...

Haydn only made piano arrangements of his own works in very special cases. The popularity of his hymn 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser' (God Save Emperor Francis) did not simply occasion him to write th...

When he switched from the harpsichord to the fortepiano in the 1780s, Joseph Haydn found he had a rich palette of sound colours and dynamic variations at his disposal, and he employed them enthusiasti...

This performance-edited edition of six early Haydn Sonatas is meticulously fingered by Keith Snell. Hob. XVI: 4, 7, 8, and 9 clearly reveal the early Haydn style at an intermediate level. Hob. XVI: 1...

Haydn's Symphony No. 85, 'La Reine de France', belongs to the set of six 'Paris' Symphonies, Nos. 82-7, composed in 1785-6 to a commission by the directors of the Concert de la Loge Olympique at the i...

Symphony No. 63 'La Roxelane' the first movement of which re-employs (with reduced instrumentation and some structural adjustment to conform to its new symphonic setting) the overture to Haydn's opera...

Haydn's Symphony No.100 was first performed on 31 March 1794 at the Hanover Square Rooms under the direction of Salomon as concertmaster with the composer himself at the fortepiano. The work was an in...