Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.81 In G Major Hob.I: Orchestra: Score

SKU: HL.48187623

UPC: 888680845544. 5.5x7.5x0.239 inches.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.92 - Miniature Score.

SKU: BT.ALHE31501

French.

SKU: HH.HH513-SOL

ISBN 9790708185239.

Hayd n’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 instant success and soon became – and remains – one of Haydn’s most popular symphonies. The soubriquet Surprise was attached to the work very early on, and was prompted by the unexpected forte chord (reinforced by the Timpani stroke) in bar 16 of the Andante. In German-speaking countries the symphony is known by the nickname Mit dem Paukenschlag for the same reason.

SKU: HH.HH508-SOL

ISBN 9790708185185.

Symp hony No. 44 is one of a number of Haydn’s middle period works often regarded as representing the so-called Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress’) style of melodramatic realism taken over from contemporary German literary and dramatic models. The symphony is monotonal – each movement being in the same key, with contrast provided by excursions into the tonic major. Contrapuntal writing pervades the whole work; the second movement, unusually, is a minuet and is a strict double canon at one bar’s interval (‘Canone in Diapason’ is Haydn’s term) which itself is contrasted by the lyrical Trio section in the tonic major. The third movement, an Adagio in the tonic major, prompted the symphony’s long-adopted soubriquet, ‘Trauer’ (‘Mourning’) as it was said to have been requested by the composer himself to be played at his own funeral.2 The monothematic contrapuntal Finale reverts to the tense emotional level of the opening Allegro.

SKU: HH.HH512-SOL

ISBN 9790708185222.

Symp hony 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 Il mondo della luna which was originally composed for the 1777 season at Esterháza. The second movement, headed Roxelane Allegretto, is a set of variations on the French melody La Roxelane which reveals itself as an early example of the composer’s favoured double-variation form of contrasting major and minor key sections. Roxelane herself is the leading female character in Les trois sultanes, a stage play by Charles Simon Favart performed by Karl Wahr and his theatrical troupe in a German translation at Esterháza in that same year with (we assume) incidental music by Haydn. The Menuetto and concluding Finale Presto of the symphony were newly-composed and do not (as far as we know) make use of re-cycled theatrical music.

SKU: HL.48187705

UPC: 888680863890. 5.5x7.5x0.254 inches.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.82 (PH102) (Orchestra).

SKU: HL.48187704

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.85 (PH101) (Orchestra).

SKU: HH.HH490-SOL

ISBN 9781910359815.

Hayd n’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 instigation of the Comte d’Ogny and were first performed by that society during the 1787 season. The soubriquet ‘La Reine’ was attached to the work soon after its first performance (and was included in the first edition of printed parts) reflecting its status as a favourite work of Marie Antoinette.

SKU: HH.HH516-SOL

ISBN 9790708185260.

Next in the series of C. D. Stegmann’s piano arrangements of Haydn symphonies is the celebrated ‘Drumroll’, whose successful orchestral premiere took place in London on 2 March 1795. As The Morning Chronicle reported: ‘Another new Overture [Symphony], by the fertile and enchanting HAYDN, was performed; which, as usual, had continual strokes of genius, both in air and harmony. The Introduction excited the deepest attention, the Allegro charmed, the Andante was encored, the Minuets, especially the Trio, were playful and sweet, and the last movement was equal, if not superior to the preceding.’.

SKU: HL.48187660

UPC: 888680845070. 5.5x7.5x0.259 inches.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.100 (PH51) (Orchestra).

SKU: HH.HH515-SOL

ISBN 9790708185253.

Hayd n’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 instant success and soon became, and remains to this day, one of Haydn’s most popular symphonies.

SKU: HL.48187624

UPC: 888680845520. 5.5x7.5x0.275 inches.

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.94 (PH17) (Orchestra).

SKU: HH.HH491-SOL

ISBN 9790708185017.

Hayd n’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 shown that the symphony should be redated to 1770. Landon rightly comments that although the accepted soubriquet may be mistaken, the message is right, for in its magnificence it is a ‘Symphony for Queens and Emperors’.

SKU: HH.HH517-SOL

ISBN 9790708185277.

Hayd n’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, Haymarket, under the direction of the composer himself at the fortepiano, at the sixth concert of G.B.Viotti’s Opera Concert Series.

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Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104.