Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943411025
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: HAYDN
Description
Joseph Haydn(1732-1809) Symphony No. 80 in DMinor Symphony No. 81 in GMajor Symphony No. 99 in EFlat MajorJoseph Haydn was bornin the village of Rohrau in 1732, the son of a wheelwright. Trained at thechoir-school of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, he spent some years earning aliving as best he could from teaching and playing the violin or keyboard, andwas able to learn from the old musician Porpora, whose assistant he became.Haydn's first appointment was in 1759 as Kapellmeister to a Bohemian nobleman,Count von Morzin. This was followed in 1761 by employment as Vice-Kapellmeisterto one of the richest men in the Empire, Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy, succeededon his death in 1762 by his brother, Prince Nikolaus. On the death in 1766 ofthe elderly and somewhat obstructive Kapellmeister, Gregor Werner, Haydnsucceeded to his position, to remain in the same employment, nominally atleast, for the rest of his life.On the completion,under the new Prince, of the magnificent palace at Esterhaza, built on the siteof a former hunting-lodge set on the Hungarian plains, Haydn assumed command ofan increased musical establishment. Here he had responsibility for the musicalactivities of the palace, which included the provision and direction of instrumentalmusic, opera and theatre music, and music for the church. For his patron heprovided a quantity of chamber music of all kinds, particularly for thePrince's own peculiar instrument, the baryton, a bowed string instrument withsympathetic strings that could also be plucked.On the death of PrinceNikolaus in 1790, Haydn was able to accept an invitation to visit London, wherehe provided music for the concert season organized by the violinist-impresarioSalomon. A second successful visit to London in 1794 and 1795 was followed by areturn to duty with the Esterhazy family, the new head of which had settledprincipally at the family property in Eisenstadt, where Haydn had started hiscareer. Much of the year, however, was to be spent in Vienna, where Haydnpassed his final years, dying in 1809 as the French armies of Napoleonapproached the city yet again.Haydn occupies aposition of great importance in the development of the classical symphony,although attributions of paternity suggest a far too simple account of thematter. His career spanned the period during which the form developed as theprincipal orchestral form and he himself certainly played a major part in thisprocess, from his first symphony some time before 1759 to his final series ofsymphonies written for the greater resources of London in the 1790s. TheseLondon symphonies were preceded by similar works for Paris and a much largerbody of compositions of more modest scoring for the orchestra at Esterhaza andat Eisenstadt, many of the last calling for a keyboard continuo, with therelatively small number of string players then employed.Symphony No. 80 in D minor was written in 1783 or1784, one of a group of three symphonies that includes No. 79 and No. 81. Thesewere pu
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Various
Various
Lully
