Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 32, 33 And 34

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Cat No: 8554154

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 636943415429

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: HAYDN

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Joseph Haydn(1732-1809) Symphonies Nos. 32, 33and 34Joseph Haydn was born in the village of Rohrau in 1732, the son of awheelwright. Trained at the choir-school of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna,he spent some years earning a living as best he could from teaching and playingthe violin or keyboard, and was able to learn from the old musician Porpora,whose assistant he became. Haydn's first appointment was in 1759 as Kapellmeisterto a Bohemian nobleman, Count von Morzin. This was followed in 1761 byemployment as Vice-Kapellmeister to one of the richest men in the Empire,Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy, succeeded on his death in 1762 by his brotherPrince Nikolaus. On the death in 1766 of the elderly and somewhat obstructiveKapellmeister, Gregor Werner, Haydn succeeded to his position, to remain in thesame employment, nominally at least, for the rest of his life.On the completion, under the new Prince, of the magnificent palace atEsterhaza, built on the site of a former hunting-lodge set on the Hungarianplains, Haydn assumed command of an increased musical establishment. Here hehad responsibility for the musical activities of the palace, which included theprovision and direction of instrumental music, opera and theatre music, andmusic for the church. For his patron he provided a quantity of chamber music ofall kinds, particularly for the Prince's own peculiar instrument, the baryton,a bowed string instrument with sympathetic strings that could also be plucked.On the death of Prince Nikolaus in 1790, Haydn was able to accept aninvitation to visit London, where he provided music for the concerto seasonorganized by the violinist-impresario Solomon. A second successful visit toLondon in 1794 and 1795 was followed by a return to duty with the Esterhazyfamily, the new head of which had settled principally at the family property inEisenstadt, where Haydn had started his career. Much of the year, however, wasto be spent in Vienna, where Haydn passed his final years, dying in 1809, asthe French armies of Napoleon approached the city yet again.Whether Haydn was the father of the symphony is a question best left tomusical genealogists. His career, however, spanned the period during which theclassical symphony developed as the principal orchestral form. He himselfcertainly played a major part in this development, from his first symphony sometime before 1759 to his final series of symphonies written for the greaterresources of London in 1794 and 1795. The London symphonies were preceded bysimilar works for Paris and a much larger body of compositions of more modestscoring for the orchestra at Esterhaza and at Eisenstadt, many of the lastcalling for a keyboard continuo, at least with the relatively smallernumber of string players available.It seems that Symphony No. 32 and Symphony No. 33 may bedated to 1760, or thereabouts, to a period when Haydn was employed in Lukavecby Count von Morzin in a musical establishment that was soon to be disbanded.The first of these is
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