Haydn: Famous Symphonies, Vol. 2

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Cat No: 8550114

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030501140

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: HAYDN

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Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) Symphony No.83 in G Minor, La Poule Symphony No.94 in G Major, Surprise Symphony No.101 in D Major, The ClockJoseph Haydn was as prolific as any eighteenth century composer, hisfecundity a matter, in good part, of the nature of his employment and thelength of his life. Born in 1732 in the village of Rohrau, the son of awheelwright, he was recruited to the choir of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Viennaat the age of eight, later earning a living as best he could as a musician inthe capital and making useful acquaintances through his association withMetastasio, the Court Poet, and the composer Nicola Porpora.In 1759, after some eight years of teaching and free-lance performance,whether as violinist or keyboard-player, Haydn found greater security in aposition in the household of Count Morzin as director of music, wintering inVienna and spending the summer on the Count's estate in Bohemia, where anorchestra was available. In 1760 Haydn married the eldest daughter of a wig-maker,a match that was to bring him no great solace, and by the following year he hadentered the service of Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy as deputy to the oldKapellmeister Gregor Werner, who had much fault to find with his youngcolleague. In 1762 Prince Paul Anton died and was succeeded by his brotherPrince Nikolaus, who concerned himself with the building of the great palace ofEsterhaza. In 1766 Werner died, and Haydn assumed the full duties ofKapellmeister, spending the larger part of the year at Esterhaza and part ofthe winter at Eisenstadt, where his first years of service to the Esterhazyfamily had passed.Haydn's responsibilities at Esterhaza were manifold. As Kapellmeisterhe was in full charge of the musicians employed by the Prince, writing music ofall kinds, and directing performances both instrumental and operatic. This busyif isolated career came to an end with the death of Prince Nikolaus in 1790.From then onwards Haydn had greater freedom, while continuing to enjoy thetitle and emoluments of his position as Kapellmeisterto the Prince'ssuccessors.Haydn's release from his immediate responsibilities allowed him, in1791, to accept an invitation to visit London, where he provided music for theconcerts organised by Johann Peter Salomon. His considerable success red to asecond visit in 1794. The following year, at the request of the new PrinceEsterhazy, who had succeeded his eider brother in 1794, he resumed some of hisearlier duties as Kapellmeister, now in Eisenstadt and in Vienna, where he tookup his own residence until his death in 1809.In 1778 Mozart had visited Paris in the hope of finding ernployment ofa suitable kind. He had there obliged the public with a symphony written forthe larger orchestra available in the French capital. At Esterhaza Haydn had anorchestra of some dozen string players. The concerts of the masonic Logeolympique, for which Haydn provided a set of symphonies in 1785, could muster40 violins and ten basses. These Haydn Paris Symph
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