Joseph Haydn Sheet Music for String Ensemble

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final, perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Pet...

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final, perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Pet...

The Weinzierl castle in Lower Austria, which still stands today, can be considered to be the birthplace of a chamber music genre, which is firmly established in our present-day repertoire. The young H...

Six works belong to opus 9 - the first group of Haydn's string quartets of which we know. The composer also went new ways as far as form was concerned: whereas he had still adhered to the five movemen...

The autograph score of the Quartets op. 17 was in the possession of the imperial police chief Johann Nepomuk Neuwirth, whose widow gave it to the Wiener Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1875. It is sa...

The chamber music world has been eagerly awaiting this - all of Haydn's string quartets are finally available in Henle Urtext quality! The last edition to be finished contains the String Quartets op....

The quartets were dedicated to the violinist Johann Tost, who was the second principal violinist at the Esterházy court during the 1780s. His business sense led him to sell twelve quartets - opus 64 w...

Haydn dedicated the series of Quartets op. 71 and 74 to the Hungarian Count Apponyi, a Viennese patron of music and a freemason friend. Haydn composed them when he was enjoying a great deal of success...

The title 'Solo per il Violino' which Haydn gave these sonatas in his 'Entwurf-Katalog' (the handwritten catalogue he maintained of his own works), already gives us an indication: it is only the violi...

Joseph Haydn composed twenty-one string trios for two violins and violoncello, of which three have been lost. These chamber music gems, which do not turn up very often on concert programs, are full of...

Joseph Haydn composed twenty-one string trios for two violins and violoncello, of which three have been lost. These chamber music gems, which do not turn up very often on concert programs, are full of...

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Wissenschaftliche Gesamtausgabe, Critical Report, paperback, Series XII, Volume 2

Following the first two volumes of Haydn's string trios in a study score (HN 9424 und 9425), we are now publishing the third and final one. Although Haydn is said to have composed about 60 string trio...

Issued in Vienna in 1788 by Artaria, Haydn's favoured publisher, this long-forgotten string quartet was, according to the title page, arranged by the composer himself from his Symphony No. 84 in E fla...

Issued in Vienna in 1788 by Artaria, Haydn's favoured publisher, this long-forgotten string quartet was, according to the title page, arranged by the composer himself from his Symphony No. 86 in D maj...