Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos. 1- 3

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Cat No: 8550314

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Genres: Classical

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Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)String Quartet No.1 in G major Hob.III:75String Quartet No.2 in D minor Hob.III:76String Quartet No.3 in C major Hob.III:77Joseph Haydn was as prolific as anyeighteenth century composer, his fecundity a matter, in good part, of thenature of his employment and the length of his life. Born in 1732 in thevillage of Rohrau, the son of a wheelwright, he was recruited to the choir ofSt. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna at the age of eight, later earning a livingas best he could as a musician in the capital and making useful acquaintancesthrough his association with Metastasio, the Court Poet, and the composerNicola Porpora.In 1759, after some eight years ofteaching and free-lance performance, whether as violinist or keyboard-player,Haydn found greater security in a position in the household of a Bohemiannobleman, Count Morzin, as director of music, wintering in Vienna and spendingthe summer on the Count's estate in Bohemia, where an orchestra was available.In 1760 Haydn married the eldest daughter of a wig-maker, a match that was tobring him neither children nor solace, and by the following year he had enteredthe service of Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy as deputy to the old KapellmeisterGregor Werner, who had much fault to find with his young colleague. In 1762Prince Paul Anton died and was succeeded by his brother Prince Nikolaus, whoconcerned himself with the building of the great palace of Esterhaza. Fouryears later Kapellmeister Werner died, and Haydn assumed the full duties of theposition, spending the larger part of the year at Esterhaza and part of thewinter at Eisenstadt, where his first years of service to the Esterhazy familyhad passed.Haydn's responsibilities at Esterhazawere manifold. As Kapellmeister he was in full charge of the musicians employedby the Prince, writing music of all kinds, and directing performances bothinstrumental, operatic and liturgical. This busy if isolated career came to anend with the death of Prince Nikolaus in 1790. From then onwards Haydn hadgreater freedom, while continuing to enjoy the title and emoluments of hisposition as Kapellmeister to the Prince's successors.Haydn's release from his immediateresponsibilities allowed him, in 1791, to accept an invitation to visit London,where he provided music for the concerts organised by Johann Peter Salomon. Hisconsiderable success led to a second visit in 1794. The following year, at therequest of the new Prince Esterhazy, who had succeeded his elder brother in1794, he resumed some of his earlier duties as Kapellmeister, now in Eisenstadtand in Vienna, where he took up his own residence until his death in 1809.Haydn was to write some 83 stringquartets over a period of forty years. The form itself is closely associatedwith that of the classical symphony as it developed from the middle of theeighteenth century in Mannheim and elsewhere in south Germany, Austria andBohemia, emerging from its origins in the Baroque sonata. Haydn's achievementis as remark
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