Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 77, 78 And 79

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Cat No: 8553363

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099436328

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: HAYDN

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JosephHaydn (1732-1809) SymphoniesNos. 77, 78 and 79 Joseph Haydn was horn inthe village of Rohrau in 1732. the son of awheelwright. Trained at the choir- school of St Stephen's Cathedra1 in Vienna,he subsequently spent some years earning a living as best he could fromteaching and playing the violin or keyboard, and was able to profit fromassociation with the old composer Porpora, whose assistant he became. Haydn ' sf1fst appointment was in 1759 as Kapellmeister to a Bohemian nobleman, Countvon Morzin, whose kinsman had once served as patron to Viva1di. This wasfollowed in 1761 by employment as Vice-KapelImeister to one of the richest menin the Empire, Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy, succeeded after his death in 1762by Prince Nicolaus. On the death in 1766 of the elderly and somewhatobstructive Kapellmeister Gregor Werner, who had found much to complain aboutin the professionalism of his young and resented deputy , Haydn succeeded tohis position, to remain in the same emp1oyment, nomina11y at least, for therest of his life. On the completion of themagnificent pa1ace at Esterhaza in the Hungarian plains, under Prince Nicolaus,Haydn assumed command of an increased musica1 establishment, Here he hadresponsibility for the musical activities of the pa1ace, which included theprovision and direction of instrumenta1 music, opera and music for the theatre,as well as music for the church. For his patron he provided a quantity ofchamber music ofa11 kinds, particularly for the Prince's own peculiar instrument,the baryton, a howed string instrument with sympathetic strings that could a1sobe plucked and one that the English scholar Dr Bumey thought to have its onlyproper use on a desert is1and, where a castaway might accompany himse1f. Prince Nico1aus died in1790 and Haydn found himse1f able to accept an invitation to visit London. There he providedmusic for concert seasons organized by the violinist-impresario Salomon. Asecond successful visit to London in 1794 and 1795 was followed by are turn 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 hisfinal years. He died in 1809, as the French armies of Napoleon approached thecity yet again. Haydn 1ived during theperiod of the eighteenth century that saw the deve1opment of insttumenta1 musicfrom the age of Bach and Handel to the era of the c1assical sonata, with itstripartite first-movement form and complementary three or four movements, thebasis now of much insttumenta1 composition. The symphony may claim to havebecome the most important form of orchestral composition and owes a great deal,if not its precise paternity, to Haydn. He first attempted such compositionsome time before 1759 and wrote his last symphonies for the London impresario andviolinist Salomon in the last decade of the century. In 1782 it had beenhoped that Haydn wou1d vi
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