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Symphony No. 22 in E♭ major, Hoboken I/22, is a symphony written by Joseph Haydn in 1764, under the auspices of the benign Prince Nikolaus Esterházy. Its nickname is "The Philosopher".
The Symphony No. 75 in D major is a symphony composed by Joseph Haydn between 1779 and 1781.
The Symphony No. 72 in D major is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. The symphony was probably composed between 1763 and 1765. The date of this composition is earlier than its number suggests. This work is not well chronologically placed in the Hoboken numbering system: it was composed fifteen to twenty years before the neighboring works.
The Symphony No. 63 in C major, Hoboken I/63, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn written sometime between 1779 and 1781. It is often known by the title of the second movement, La Roxelane, named for Roxelana, the influential wife of Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. This second movement was originally part of Haydn's incidental music for Charles Simon Favart's stage work Soliman der zweite in which Roxelana was a character.
Symphony No. 58 in F major, Hoboken I/58, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn, composed probably around 1767 but certainly not after 1774, after which time the traits of this symphony were outmoded. It is scored for two oboes, two horns and strings.
Count Karl Joseph of Morzin (1717–1783) was a Bohemian aristocrat from the Morzin family, remembered today as the first person to employ the composer Joseph Haydn as his Kapellmeister, or music director. The first few of Haydn's many symphonies were written for the Count.
Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 31 in D major, Hob. I/31, was composed in 1765 for Haydn's patron Nikolaus Esterházy. It is nicknamed the "Hornsignal Symphony", because it gives a prominent role to an unusually large horn section of four players. Probably because of its prominent obbligato writing for the horns, in Paris, the publisher Sieber published this symphony as a "symphonie concertante" around 1785.
Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 11 in E♭ major is a symphony which may have been written as early as 1760 but no later than 1762, meaning that it was written for either the orchestra of the salubrious Count Morzin or the noble Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy's palace in Eisenstadt.
Therese Jansen Bartolozzi was an eminent pianist whose career flourished in London around the end of the 18th century. She was the dedicatee of piano works by a number of famous composers.
David Wyn Jones FLSW is a British musicologist. He is an expert on music of the Classical period, including that of Haydn and Beethoven.
The Piano Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI/34, L. 53, was written in the late 1770s by Joseph Haydn and published in London around 1783 by Beardmore & Birchall.
Twenty Variations in G major, Hob. XVII/2, was written in the 1760s by Joseph Haydn. In 1788/1789, Artaria published the Arietta con 12 Variazioni in A major, which is an abridged version of the Twenty Variations in G major, and in a different key.
The Piano Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI/9, L.3, also called a divertimento, was written before 1766 by Joseph Haydn. The 1st and 3rd movements are used as the 1st and 5th movements respectively of the Piano Trio in F major, Hob. XV/39. The Minuet of the 2nd movement is also used as the Minuet of the 4th movement of Hob. XV/39.
The Piano Sonata in B-flat major, Hob. XVI/17, is a composition that was originally attributed to Joseph Haydn, but was later considered to have been written by an unknown composer, subsequently identified as Johann Gottfried Schwanenberger.
The Piano Sonata in D major, Hob. XIV/5, L.28, also called a divertimento, is a sonata written c.1765–1771 by Joseph Haydn. However, Anthony van Hoboken's catalogue states the composition date as "before 1766". It may have been written for 2 violins and cello.
The Piano Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI/50, L.60, was written c. 1794 by Joseph Haydn.
The Keyboard Variations No. 5 in C major, Hob. XVII/5, is a set of Keyboard variations written by Joseph Haydn in 1790 and published by Artaria & Co. on February 9, 1791.
The Morzin Palace is a country estate in Dolní Lukavice, Czech Republic.
References
- Jones, David Wyn. Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Landon, H.C. Robbins. Haydn: Chronicle and Works. Vol 1. The Early Years 1732-1765. London: Thames & Hudson, 1980.
