Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-10

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Cat No: 8553824

Release Date: 01 January 2001

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: HAYDN

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Franz Josef Haydn(1732-1809) Piano Sonatas Vol. 10, Nos. 1-10. Born in 1732 in the village of Rohrau, near the modemborder between Austria and Slovakia, Joseph Haydn was the son of a wheelwright, He had his musicaltraining as a chorister at St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and thereafter earned a livingas best he could from teaching and playing the violin or keyboard. During theseearlier years he was able to learn from the old composer Porpora, whoseassistant he became. Haydn's first regular employment came in 1759 as Kapellmeisterto a Bohenrian nobleman, Count von Morzin. This was followed in 1761 byappointment as Vice- Kapellmeister to one of the richest men in theEmpire, Prince Paul Anton Estethazy, succeeded on his death in 1762 by hisbrother Prince Nikolaus. On the death in 1766 of the elderly and somewhatobstructive Kapellmeister, Gregor Werner, Haydn succeeded to hisposition, remaining in the same employment, nominally at least, until his deathin 1809. Much of Haydn'sservice of the Esterhazys was at the new palace of Esterhaza on the Hungarianplains, a complex of buildings ID rival Versailles in magnificence Here he wasresponsible for the musical establishment and its activities, including regularinstrumental concerts and music for the theatre, opera and church. For hispatron he provided a variety of chamber music, in particular for the Prince'sfavourite instrument, the baryton, a bowed string instrument with sympatheticstrings that could also be plucked. On the death ofPrince Nikolaus in 1790 Haydn was able to accept an invitation from theviolinist-impresario Salomon to visit London, where he already enjoyed a considerablereputation. He was in London for a second time in 1794 and 1795, after which hereturned to duty with the Esterhazy family, now chiefly at the family residencein Eisenstadt, where he had started his career. Much of the year, however, wasspent in Vienna, where he passed hisfinal years, dying as the city fell once more into the power of Napoleon'sarmy. Haydn's keyboardmusic was at first written for the harpsichord, with later works clearlyintended for the pianoforte, as dynamic markings show. His career coincidedwith changes in the standard keyboard instrument. as the fortepiano and thenthe pianoforte, with their hammer action and dynamic possibilities graduallyreplaced the harpsichord and clavichord. At the same time there was a parallelchange in instrumental forms, as the structure that has come to be known, amongother titles, as sonata-allegro form, developed. Of the 47 keyboard sonataslisted by Georg Feder in The New Grove Dictionary of Music andMusicians of 1980, the first thirty were intended for the harpsichord. Inaddition ID this, fourteen early harpsichord sonatas that have been attributedID Haydn are listed. Nine of the ten sonatas here included belong to this lastgroup. The early twentieth century edition of the sonatas by Karl paslerincludes 52 surviving sonatas, in addition to this there remain eight
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