Joseph Haydn's concertos for violoncello and orchestra stand out for their lightness and elegance. The Concerto in C major Hob. VIIb:1 was most likely written between 1762 and 1765, when Haydn was alr...
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...
During Joseph Haydn's lifetime, concertos for solo instruments and ensemble were generally written for a particular musician. In the case of Haydn's violoncello Concerto in D major Hob.VII:2, this per...
The preface by Christin Heitmann provides illuminating background information. Haydn did not assign the nickname 'Sun Quartets': it alludes to an edition of the time, in which the title page was decor...
Haydn allowed about ten years to pass before composing a new cycle of string quartets after opus 20: the so-called 'Russian Quartets'. This is the first series of quartets that we know he wrote with p...
At the end of the 18th century, the Viennese court trumpeter Anton Weidinger (1767-1852) invented the 'Klappentrompete' keyed trumpet, which allowed the trumpet to play the octave in chromatic (half-s...
Dvorák's famous Symphony from the New World abounds in melodic turns and phrases that call up the atmosphere of 'Indian melodies' and spirituals. Among them are pentatonic (five-tone) tunes, and synco...
Two of Joseph Haydn's three concertos for horn and orchestra have been lost, while two further horn concertos have often been mistakenly ascribed to him. Haydn's sole surviving horn concerto, whose au...
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Along with Symphonies Nos. 76 and 77 Haydn composed Symphony No. 78 for a journey to England that never took place. Nonetheless, H. C. Robbins Landon referred to these works as the 'English Symphonies...
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Clementi not only dedicated himself to the piano as a virtuoso and composer but also as a teacher, music publisher and instrument maker - so it is no wonder that he was referred to as the 'Father of t...
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...
We know that Brahms took an active interest in Baroque music throughout his life. It can thus hardly be by chance that he chose a theme from one of Handel's harpsichord suites for his 25 variations. T...
This is a wonderful selection of Piano Sonatas by Muzio Clementi. A dedicated player and pioneer of the Piano, which led to him being dubbed the father of the piano, Italian composer and Pianist Muzio...
This facsimile edition of the manuscript of Johannes Brahms's Fantasies op. 116, nos. 1-7 for piano solo is bound in red linen. The five-colour print reproduces the autograph, which was acquired in 19...
Carl Maria von Weber is best-known as a master of Romantic opera, but he was originally a virtuoso pianist who created a substantial amount of piano music for concert use. Next to his four piano sonat...
Alongside the opera 'Der Freischütz', Weber's 'Invitation to the Dance' in D flat major op. 65 is his most famous work. In the 19th century, Weber's spirited piece was considered the virtual incarnati...
Muzio Clementi was only just 16 years old when he wrote this sonata - and already a talented pianist. He had studied many of the great works written by his famous predecessors. This charming early wor...
Which of his pupils did Haydn have in mind when he composed his humorous 'Divertimento à due per il Clavicembalo solo'? It was written at a time when works for piano four-hands were still the exceptio...
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...
Haydn's numerous divertimentos for strings and wind are cheerful, functional music about whose genesis we know very little. Many stem from Haydn's early years, when the composer had to keep his head a...
Haydn's numerous divertimentos for strings and winds are cheerful, functional music about whose genesis we know very little. Many stem from Haydn's early years, when the composer had to keep his head...
Critical notes on Joseph Haydn's String Quartets Op.20 And Op.33 as compiled by Georg Leder.
There has been increased general interest in the Bohemian composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c. 1711-1776) over the past few years, especially due to his frequently played trumpet concerto. A respe...
The names of the composers included here read like a 'Who is Who' of the heyday of Bohemian musicians and composers from the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. They include F. Benda, J. Stamitz,...
Gallant' and 'sensitive' by no means implies boring and old-fashioned. Proof of this is given by Franz (František) Benda, the Bohemian Paganini of the 18th Century. Not only was his life extremely col...
The fact that Ouverture, Scherzo und Finale is hardly known may be due to the dif? culty of categorizing it. In letters and notes, one can occasionally ?nd the designation 'suite', 'symphoniette' and...
Studies and materials for the Kinsky/Halm catalog raisonné
The documents of the Esterházy archives on the princely court chapel in the period from 1761 to 1770.
Haydn Bibliography 1984-1990
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
Along with Symphonies Nos. 79 and 81, Haydn's D-minor Symphony Hob. I:80 belongs to a set of symphonies that he completed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, his ta...
Along with Symphonies Nos. 80 and 81, Haydn's Symphony in F major Hob. I:79 belongs to a group of works that he composed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy who wish...
Haydn composed his Symphony no. 76 at the same time as his Symphonies nos. 77 and 78 for a planned trip to England that never took place. Nonetheless, H. C. Robbins Landon calls these works the 'Engli...
Letters of the composer have come down to us only on a few of Haydn's symphonies, amongst them the 'Laudon' Symphony Hob. I:69. In one of these letters, Haydn agrees to the publisher's suggestion to n...
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Sometimes the symphonies ... are destined to showcase the musicians' talents' - a music dictionary of the time thus commented on a new genre, the 'Symphonie concertante'. The playful competition betwe...
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