Sarah Jenner

On the morning of Friday 8 July 1791, at the University of Oxford, Haydn was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. That same evening his Symphony No. 92 was performed at the Sheldonian Theat...

Joseph Haydn's La Canterina ('The Singing Girl') was one of the composer's earliest stage works, written in 1766 soon after Prince Nikolaus Esterházy had promoted him to first Kapellmeister. The libre...

Haydn's Symphony No. 48 was long thought to have been written for, and performed in honour of the state visit of Empress Maria Theresia to Eszterháza in 1773. However, research by Robbins Landon has s...

Haydn's Symphony No. 96 acquired its nickname through an unfortunate misunderstanding, originating in a colourful story reported by a contemporary biographer of the composer. The circumstances concern...

Symphony No. 44 in E minor is one of a number of Haydn's mid-period works representing the Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress') style of melodramatic realism taken over from contemporary German litera...

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...

aydn’s Symphony No. 101 was first performed on 3 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 ins...

Haydn's Symphony No. 104 - 'The 12th that I have composed in England' as proudly inscribed by Haydn himself on his autograph score - was first performed on 13 April 1795 at the King's Theatre, Haymark...

Mozart’s final three symphonies were composed, according to Mozart’s autograph Verzeichnüß, in the space of a few weeks, from late June to early August 1788. During that year the 11-year-old Hummel wa...

According to Mozart’s own thematic catalogue of his works (the Verzeichnüß), which he kept from 1784 to 1791, his final three symphonies were composed within the space of a few weeks, from late June t...

The Marriage of Figaro was performed in Prague in Mozart's presence, and on the 19th of January 1787 he gave an Academy at the National Theatre at which Symphony No. 38, since universally known under...

Haydn’s Symphony No.94 was first performed on 23 March 1792 at the Hanover Square Rooms under the direction of Salomon as concertmaster with the composer himself at the fortepiano. The work was an ins...