Joseph Haydn
Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:49 "Genzinger"
for piano - Jubilee special edition - 100 years of Bärenreiter
Joseph Haydn
Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:49 "Genzinger"
for piano - Jubilee special edition - 100 years of Bärenreiter
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Series Bärenreiter Urtext
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- Edition Sheet Music Download (Urtext)
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA8639-DL
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Description:
The Sonata in E flat major No. 49 is one of Haydn's most popular piano sonatas. He dedicated it to Anna Jerlischek, the head of the Esterházy household, who had commissioned it. However, Haydn had probably been working on the work for a long time when he received this commission and originally had another dedicatee in mind, namely Maria Anna von Genzinger, the wife of Nikolaus I Esterházy's personal physician in Vienna. In the P.S. of a letter to her, he wrote: "NB: Mademoiselle Nanett [Anna Jerlischek] must not know that this sonata was already half finished, because otherwise she might make other assumptions about me which could be detrimental to me, I must be very careful not to lose your favor." The secret dedicatee evidently feared technical difficulties in overdrawing the left hand in the Adagio of the sonata and wrote to Haydn: "I like the sonata very much, there is only one thing I wish could be changed (if it does not affect the beauty of the piece), namely that which has to be played over the hand in the second part of the Adagio, because I am not used to it, so it seems difficult to me, so please remind me in what way it could be changed." Haydn, however, left it at this pianistically effective trick.
This single edition is published as part of a series of popular works from Bärenreiter's program for the 100th anniversary of the publishing house. It is an excerpt from the anthology of Haydn's "Late Piano Sonatas" (BA10804), which was edited by Bernhard Moosbauer and Holger M. Stüwe and provided with notes on historical performance practice and fingerings by Rebecca Maurer.
This single edition is published as part of a series of popular works from Bärenreiter's program for the 100th anniversary of the publishing house. It is an excerpt from the anthology of Haydn's "Late Piano Sonatas" (BA10804), which was edited by Bernhard Moosbauer and Holger M. Stüwe and provided with notes on historical performance practice and fingerings by Rebecca Maurer.