Haydn's Finest, For London : NPR Haydn's Finest, For London *a weekly guide to essential classics* Ted Libbey And Fred Child Recommend Haydn's 'London' Symphonies Embed Embed May 26, 200911:23 AM ET Ted Libbey Portrait of Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn. Kean Collection/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Portrait of Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn. Kean Collection/Getty Images Symphony No. 104 in D major ("London"), H. 1/104 6:49 Embed Embed <iframe src="" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Ted Libbey considers the great composer's final set of symphonies. Joseph Haydn 's last 12 symphonies, commissioned by the London impresario Johann Peter Saloman and composed between 1791 and 1795, are known as the London Symphonies, and are considered the composer's supreme achievements in the form.

These are the grandest of Haydn's symphonies, in both proportion and orchestration. Haydn here offers a compendium of late-18th-century symphonic thought, embracing the full range of style and topics found in the music of the classical period. While the ideas themselves aren't new, they are expressed with a new directness and a heightened sense of profile. Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is how each of these works exhibits its own character while remaining unmistakably the work of one mind. The last of Haydn's London Symphonies is a work of summation whose nickname ("London") attests to its pride of place in the group. It begins with a weighty introduction in the style of a French overture, full of pathos. In the Andante, a theme-and-variations movement, there's a strong sense of fantasy. The minuet is a brilliant country dance with a hint of the hurdy-gurdy. And the finale opens with an exuberant treatment of a Croatian folk tune over a musette-style drone base.

At the end of the movement, in the score he wrote, "Fine Laus Deo" ("The End, Praise God") provides a wonderful ending to this glorious set of 12 symphonies. Article continues after sponsorship The Colin Davis Touch The London Symphonies have been interpreted in different ways by many different conductors, and picking the best recordings is a difficult task. That said, the laurel goes to Colin Davis, whose 1975-81 accounts with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam stand among the most impressive recorded accomplishments. These are exceptionally personal interpretations, with wit and warmth in every measure. All 12 symphonies are wonderfully well-played and expertly recorded. To hear last week's feature, click here. For a full archive of NPR's Classical 50, click here .

Related NPR Stories Haydn: London Symphonies, The Seasons / Beecham - Warner Classics: 5099998460328 | Buy from ArkivMusic Haydn: London Symphonies, The Seasons / Beecham Release Date: 01/14/2014 Number of Discs: 6 Recorded in: Stereo Low Stock: Currently 3 or fewer in stock. Usually ships in 24 hours, unless stock becomes depleted. SEE, HEAR & LEARN MORE! Notes & Editorial Reviews Works on This Recording Customer Reviews Notes and Editorial Reviews The performances in this box constitute the highest achievement of Thomas Beecham with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Though his many EMI/Columbia recordings of the standard and not so standard repertoire were among the finest of their time, Beecham's Haydn was and remains special. All Beecham's best qualities are in his Haydn -- suave phrasing, smooth shaping, an unerring sense of drama, and an innate feeling for the lyrical line, plus something more: a sense of kinship with the composer.

Born to money and supremely talented, Beecham naturally understood himself to be on a more or less equal footing with the composers whose music he conducted, but he appeared almost to identify with the Austrian classical master. In the Read more London symphonies, Beecham leads performances suffused with character, wit, and invention, performances that constantly surprise but always fulfill, performances altogether individualistic but absolutely right in tone and temper, performances, in sum, very much like both the composer and the conductor. Of course, this wouldn't be possible without the Royal Philharmonic, which plays for Beecham with its accustomed crisp attack and polished virtuosity, and responds quickly and gracefully to his every command. Great as his Haydn symphonies are, Beecham's account of his oratorio The Seasons is even better. With soprano Elsie Morison, tenor Alexander Young, bass Michael Langdon, the Royal Philharmonic and the eponymously named Beecham Choral Society, Beecham creates a performance with the immense scale and enormous scope the subject requires, and the exalted fusion of idealistic humanism and pantheistic spirituality the treatment demands.

Recorded in resplendent stereo between 1956 and 1958, the performances in this box constitute the essential element of any Beecham or Haydn collection. Try "Then breaks the glorious day at last," the final double chorus from The Seasons. If that doesn't do it, nothing will. Franz Josef Haydn Use Arnold's Midi Player , or your own MIDI set-up to manipulate or re-orchestrate the piece! Scroll down for Suggested Activities COMPOSITION: Symphony No. 104 (The London) in D major - The Fourth Movement: "Allegro spirituoso" FEATURES: 1. Sonata-Allegro Form - can very broadly be considered a complex ABA' form. Often the first A part is repeated verbatim making it AABA'. Many would say the form was invented by Haydn. It has been used by almost all composers since. The first A part is called the "exposition," the B part the "development," and the A' part the "recapitulation." If you have a MIDI plug-in, you are now hearing the "EXPOSITION." 2.

Cut time or 2/2 - 2 half notes per bar - Beat in 2. 3. Folk Dance melody 4. Drone - a long held, low note continuing through a moving upper part 5. Symphony - a piece in 3 or more movements for a full orchestra with no soloist BACKGROUND: The Composer: "Papa" Haydn, as he was affectionately called, was perhaps the greatest and best known composer of his day. He was one of the last true court composers having worked for the Esterházy family, a family of enormously wealthy Hungarian princes, for over 30 years. Towards the end of his life, when the Prince died, Haydn went to England to perform his works. He was received like royalty. This symphony, Haydn's last, was written for one of these appearances. Haydn is often credited with being the inventor of the symphony. He was very prolific. As the title tells us, he wrote 104 symphonies! This still must be a world record. The Composition: This is the last movement of Haydn's last symphony. It uses a Croatian folk dance to start the piece.

It is an Allegro spirituoso movement. Allegro means quick and cheerful, spirituoso means spirited or lively. Listen to how Haydn plays with this dance melody from his homeland, Croatia (on the Austria/Czechoslovakia border). Listen for the drone effect much like the one used by Aaron Copland in his fiddle-tune dance music, "Hoedown." QUESTIONS: - Why do you think Haydn used a dance tune for his symphony? - Haydn used a folk melody for this piece. Do you think it was a lullaby, a march or a dance? - What makes you think so? SOME POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES: 1. Conduct in 2 . click here and follow the conduct in 2 diagram as the music plays. 2. Learn the folk melody. Make up words. 3. Listen for drone at the beginning. What instruments play it? [horns and cellos] 4. Compare with Copland's "Hoedown." OTHER HAYDN INFO on the 'net : Joseph Haydn - Biography Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) Austrian Various paternity charges have been levelled at the composer Haydn.

His career coincided with the development of classical style and forms, with the symphony, sonata, string quartet and other instrumental forms, in the moulding of which he played an important part. Born in Rohrau in 1732, the son of a wheelwright, he was trained as a chorister at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, where he made his early living, before appointment to the small musical establishment of Count Morzin in 1759. In 1760 he entered the service of the Esterházy Princes, and succeeded to the position of Kapellmeister on the death of his predecessor and immediate superior Gregorius Werner in 1766. Much of Haydn’s life now centred on the magnificent palace and estate at Esterháza, where his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy had moved his entourage for most of the year. The death of the Prince in 1790 released Haydn and allowed travel to London.

There followed further service of the successors of Prince Nikolaus, now at the former residence at Eisenstadt, and concluding retirement in Vienna, where he died in 1809, as the soldiers of Napoleon again entered the city. Haydn’s duties as Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family involved the provision of church music, as well as music for entertainment. The Mass settings composed for the younger Prince Nikolaus include the well known Nelson Mass, celebrating the English admiral’s victory at the Battle of the Nile. Between 1796 and 1802 Haydn wrote seven Masses, all with popular German nicknames, “Heiligmesse”, “Paukenmesse”, “Coronation Mass”, “Theresienmesse”, “Schöpfungsmesse” and “Harmoniemesse”. Haydn’s visits to London suggested to him the musical possibilities of oratorio, in the form perpetuated after Handel’s death by commemorative festival performances. The result was The Creation (Die Schöpfung), with a text by Baron van Swieten based on English sources, first performed in Vienna in 1798.

The Seasons (Die Jahreszeiten), with a text by van Swieten based on James Thomson, was first performed in 1801. Haydn’s earlier oratorios include Il ritorno di Tobia (The Return of Tobias), completed in 1775. Haydn’s two dozen operas have received rather less attention than many of his other works. Most of these were written for performance at Esterháza, either in the principal theatre or in the marionette theatre. Haydn wrote a number of songs, providing nearly 400 British folk-song arrangements for the Edinburgh publisher Thomson, in addition to songs and cantatas in German and English. The two sets of Canzonettas written in England in 1794 and 1795 include settings of verses by the wife of Haydn’s London surgeon, Hunter.

Haydn’s 108 symphonies, written between 1759 and 1795, range from works written for the relatively modest local court orchestra of two oboes, two horns and strings, to the greater complexity of his larger scale London Symphonies, the twelve written for performance in London under the direction of the German-born violinist and impresario Salomon during the composer’s two London visits. The London Symphonies include a number of works with nicknames, No. 94, “The Surprise”, No. 96, “The Miracle”, No. 100, “The Military”, No. 101, “The Clock”, No. 103, “The Drumroll”, and No. 104, known as “The London” or “The Salomon”. Other named symphonies that remain in regular concert repertoire include No. 92, “The Oxford” and Nos. 82, 83 and 84, “The Bear”, “The Hen” and “La reine” (The Queen of France). Earlier named symphonies include the interesting Symphony No.

22, “The Philosopher”, which includes two cor anglais or English horns, tenor oboes in place of the normal higher-pitched instrument, written in 1764, three years after “Le matin”, “Le midi” and “Le soir” (Morning, Noon and Evening), Nos. 6, 7 and 8. The “Farewell” Symphony, No. 45, allows players, impatient for a return from Esterháza to their families at home, to leave the platform one by one. Its immediate predecessor is the “Trauersinfonie”, Mourning Symphony, while No. 49, “ La Passione”, reflects elements of Sturm und Drang, the Storm and Stress movement in German literature and art of the period. Of Haydn’s concertos, the work written in 1796 for the newly developed and soon to be obsolete keyed trumpet, is the best known, closely rivalled by the two surviving Cello Concertos, in D and in C. Three genuine Violin Concertos remain, in G, in C and in A, and one Horn Concerto.

The keyboard concertos have recently entered popular repertoire, in particular the Concerto in D major. They were originally designed either for organ or harpsichord and were written in the earlier part of Haydn’s career, before his employment by the Esterházys. Haydn was a prolific composer of chamber music, with a considerable number of compositions for his principal patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, who played the baryton, a bowed string instrument resembling a viola da gamba, with sympathetic strings that could also be plucked. The English scholar Dr. Burney suggested it as only useful on a desert island, where a player could accompany a bowed melody with plucked accompaniment, without other assistance. For the more conventional string quartet Haydn wrote some 83 works, described originally as divertimenti, but later dignified by the more serious title by which they are generally known. Once again nicknames reflect the continued popularity of many of these works. Sets of named quartets include the Sun Quartets of 1772, Op. 20, the Russian Quartets written in 1781, Op.

33, and including “The Joke” and “The Bird”, the Prussian Quartets of 1787, Op. 50, much influenced by Mozart and including “The Frog”. There are three sets of Tost Quartets, Opp. 54, 55 and 64, bearing the name of the Esterháza violinist turned business-man Johann ToSt The Tost Quartets include “The Razor” and “The Lark”. Further sets of quartets were issued in 1793 and 1797, the “Apponyi”, Opp. 71 and 74, including “The Rider”, and the “Erdödy”, Op. 76, including the “Fifths”, “Emperor” and “Sunrise”, both groups bearing the names of aristocratic patrons. The Opus 1 Quartets were seemingly written between 1757 and 1761. The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross was arranged in string quartet form from the original work for full orchestra, amplified with the addition of choral parts. It was written for performance in Cádiz on Good Friday 1787.

In addition to a number of works for two violins and cello and 126 baryton trios, Haydn wrote a number of attractive piano trios between 1784 and 1797. The best known of these last is the G major Trio with its so-called Gypsy Rondo. Haydn composed nearly fifty keyboard sonatas, the earlier intended for harpsichord and the last for the newly developed hammer-action fortepiano. The final works in this form include the so-called English Sonata in C major, written in 1795 during Haydn’s second visit to London. Franz Joseph Haydn | Biography, Albums, Streaming Links | AllMusic Franz Joseph Haydn Biography by Rovi Staff Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical era whose influence on his contemporaries and later composers was immense. Symphony - encyclopedia article - Citizendium This editable Main Article has an approved citable version (see its Citable Version subpage ). While we have done conscientious work, we cannot guarantee that this Main Article, or its citable version, is wholly free of mistakes.

By helping to improve this editable Main Article, you will help the process of generating a new, improved citable version. (CC) Photo: Alton Thompson A concert hall , where symphonies are played. A symphony is a large-scale musical composition for an orchestra . Since the late eighteenth century, composers have regarded the symphony as “the central form of orchestral composition”, similar to how writers of fiction regard the novel and filmmakers the feature film. [1] According to music historian Michael Kennedy, the symphony “is reserved by composers for their most weighty and profound orchestral thoughts, but of course there are many light-hearted, witty, and entertaining symphonies.” [2] In the present day the symphony is a principal element of orchestral concerts in the United States and Europe, and the very name "symphony orchestra", a common synonym for “orchestra”, attests to the symphony’s predominance in the classical concert hall. Contents History Beginnings  the Baroque (1600 - ca. 1750) and early Classical periods (ca.

1750 - 1770s) In the seventeenth century, a "sinfonia" was, most generally, a short instrumental piece that served as an introduction to a larger work, such as an overture to an opera or a cantata . However, the term could also refer to an instrumental work that stood alone, such as a concerto grosso (e.g. Alessandro Stradella’s sinfonie a più istrumenti, "symphonies with more instruments"). Moreover, the terms "sinfonia", "concerto", and "trio sonata" were often used as synonyms. There were two general types of overture in the seventeenth century: the Italian opera sinfonia, exemplified by the works of Alessandro Scarlatti; and the French Overture, exemplified by the works of Jean-Baptiste Lully. Both types of overture were most often structured in three movements; however, the structure of an Italian sinfonia was fast-slow-fast, while that of a French Overture was slow-fast-slow.

Regardless of the type, an overture was composed for a small orchestra (no more than fifteen players), was relatively easy to play, and was short in duration (typically six or seven minutes). [3] During the eighteenth century, the overture or sinfonia as "symphony"an independent, multi-movement musical piece for concert performance with (as opposed to a concerto ) no one dominant instrumentdeveloped in various parts of Europe concurrently, particularly in Italy, as evidenced by works by Giovanni Battista Sammartini ; Vienna, notably by Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Georg Matthias Monn ; London, notably by Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel ; North Germany, where a group of early symphonists included Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; and Mannheim, Germany, where early symphonies were written by Johann Stamitz most especially. At this time the symphony was a structure still under development, and repeated experimentation was expanding the complexity of this relatively new musical form. Symphonies composed in the eighteenth century until the 1770s are referred to as “preclassical” and their composers as “preclassical symphonists”. [4] Why did the symphony grow in prominence?

In the Baroque period, secular music for the first time became more prominent than sacred music. New musical forms such as the sinfonia-as-proto-symphony registered this change wherein the concert hall, rather than the church, became the premier venue for which to compose music. The first collections of concert symphonies (still referred to as sinfonias) were published in various places in Europe, such as London, between 1740 and 1750. [5] Growth of the new musical form was also linked to the expansion of the concept of the orchestra itself. The court orchestras during the Baroque period expanded in size to comprise up to twenty players representing various families of musical instruments, particularly strings, woodwinds, and keyboard instruments. Whereas in 1700 most orchestras were private and supported by royalty, by the end of the eighteenth century orchestras for public concerts had become increasingly common, and symphonies were written to fulfill the demand for orchestral concert music. Most preclassical symphonies consisted of three movements.

Although some composers such as Monn had been experimenting with the four-movement symphony as early as 1740, four-movement symphonies did not become the norm until around 1770, the time of the birth of the "mature classic symphony". [6] The mature classic symphony (1770s - 1800) The symphony continued to grow in importance, complexity and scale during the eighteenth century. Over 16,000 symphonies were composed in this century, the majority of them during the years 1750 - 1770 by composers completely forgotten today. [7] In the period 1750 - 1770 the typical performance time of a symphony was anywhere from ten to twenty minutes. [8] For most of the eighteenth century up to the late 1770s, symphonies, when played in private settings, were generally considered background music for such social activities as card playing and socializing.

Nor were symphonies the central feature of a public concert program; rather, symphonies were typically scheduled at the beginning or end of a program, when the comings and goings of audience members were most voluble and intrusive. “Music was probably not ignored on such occasions so much as paid intermittent attention,” writes music scholar Richard Will. [9] In the second half of the eighteenth century, Franz Joseph Haydn wrote at least 104 symphonies, many of which experimented with the form (some have six movements, for example), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote about 41 symphonies (the first at eight years old). [10] Haydn was the transitional point from the preclassical symphony to what is referred to as the mature classic symphony.

The fourteen symphonies Haydn composed between 1757 and 1761 exemplify many characteristics of the preclassical symphony, but in some ways they are already looking forward to the mature classic symphony, which Haydn (with his symphonies 42 - 56) and Mozart (including symphonies 25 and 29) arrived at by the mid 1770s. [11] Haydn and Mozart are considered the most celebrated composers of the Classical symphony. The strict terminology “symphony” arrived only after Haydn and Mozart had begun their symphonic labors; as late as 1766 symphonies could be advertised to the public (in London and in Holland, for example) not as symphonies but as “overtures”. By 1770, however, a program for a concert given by Mozart in Mantua uses the word “symphony”. [12] In the last quarter of the eighteenth century the term “symphony” became firmly established, so that, for example, by 1805 Beethoven would identify his Third Symphony on the title page as "Sinfonie".

[13] Flowering at the time of the “Age of Reason”, the classical symphony was marked by overall balance and intricate design in which structural symmetry was a general characteristic of each movement. (See, for example, the sonata-form , minuet , trio , and rondo .) The overall structure of the Classical symphony was typically in four movements and conformed to this pattern: (1) fast, (2) slow, (3) moderately fast, (4) quite fast. [14] The eighteenth century orchestra performing a classical symphony required no conductor, as the musicians were guided by the concertmaster (usually the first violinist) and the basso-continuo player. [15] The Classical symphony was also, compared to symphonies of subsequent centuries, "short and sweet": virtually all of Haydn’s symphonies each take no longer than 25 minutes to play, and Mozart’s take no more than 30 minutes. The mature symphonies of Haydn and Mozart took on new importance for listeners, who began to pay close attention to the music, as Mozart described in a letter of 3 July 1778.

[16] Symphonies began to occupy the central position in the programs of public concerts during the 1780s. [17] In his lifetime Haydn achieved great fame throughout Europe for his symphonies, many of which were published in various European capital cities, but only three of Mozart’s symphonies were published in Mozart’s lifetime. [18] Music scholars generally rate the late symphonies of both Haydn (his twelve London symphonies 1791 - 1795) and Mozart (his last four symphonies, including the Prague and the Jupiter) as the highest achievements of the mature classic symphony, which is sometimes referred to as the "Viennese Classical symphony". Beethoven's symphonies (1800 - 1823) Although Ludwig van Beethoven wrote only nine symphonies, in the process he single-handedly expanded the structure of the symphonic form.

Whereas Beethoven’s first two symphonies reflect closely the established style of the mature classic symphony, his Third Symphony, the Eroica (1804), was groundbreaking in terms of performance time, complexity of orchestration, andin the words of one music scholar contemporary with Beethovenits “colossal ideas”. [19] In Beethoven’s symphonies from the Eroica onward, range and density of sound, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, and thematic development all are experimented with, in the process advancing the scope and expression of the concept of the symphony. For his Fifth Symphony Beethoven expanded the size of the orchestra by adding new instruments, including the trombone, piccolo, and contrabassoon. [20] His Ninth Symphony (1823) was yet grander still: not only was it the longest symphony ever written at the time (it takes over an hour to perform), but it also featured the inclusion of human voices in the fourth movement. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony occupies a privileged position in the history of the symphony, equivalent in stature to the Mona Lisa among paintings; it is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon.

In fact, Beethoven’s achievement in the symphony transcends the category of the symphony. The four-note motif that begins Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, three quick G’s and a long E-flat, is perhaps the most famous musical phrase in classical music history. The Ninth Symphony occupies an honored position not only in the history of the symphony but also in the history of classical music itself. In recent years, Beethoven's Ninth has been played in world capitals to mark events of great significance. For example, the newly reunified city of Berlin celebrated the Fall of the Berlin Wall with a performance of the Ninth Symphony six weeks later on Christmas Day 1989 in the Schauspielhaus [21] ; and the BBC Proms revised its programme of 15 September 2001 ("The Last Night of the Proms") to include the choral finale from the Ninth Symphony to mark the tragic events of September 11, 2001. [22] Beethoven's achievement was also revolutionary in terms of the public reception of the genre of the symphony. With the advent of his masterworks, symphonies became and would remain the central feature of orchestra concert programs around the world, as they remain.

Moreover, unlike any of the symphonists preceding him, Beethoven achieved the singular accomplishment of having his complete set of symphonies published in his lifetime. [23] Beethoven’s symphonies were marked by what is generally referred to as “personal expression”, and acted as the passageway from the intellectual mature classic symphony to the emotional, lyrical, dramatic symphonies of the Romantic period of the nineteenth century. The Romantic period (19th century) After Beethoven, the symphony, in the hands of some composers, remained less a formal exercise and more a subjective expression of the composer’s inner experience. Two branches led from the pioneering work of Beethoven: symphonies written within the genre of the mature classic symphony, and those written within the genre of the expansive and expressive symphony. This latter branch would eventually characterize the main direction of the twentieth century symphony. During the years 1813 - 1825, Franz Schubert composed nine symphonies, most of which recall the Haydn and Mozart of the Classical symphony.

[24] His Eighth Symphony (Unfinished, 1822), however, is a major development in the history of the nineteenth century symphony, in terms of its innovations in scoring and its basis in lyric (i.e., emotional) experience. (Various music scholars describe this symphony’s “poetic eloquence”, “creative orchestration”, “tragically pungent spell”, “profound and tender feeling”, and “majestic inspiration”.) [25] Just as celebrated is Schubert's ninth symphony, The Great (1825), which has been described as “the last great Classical symphony”. [26] Felix Mendelssohn composed five symphonies between the years 1824 - 1832, which are closer in style to Mozart and the Classical symphony than Beethoven and the Romantic symphony. Robert Schumann composed four symphonies between the years 1841 - 1853, and while they are marked by some noteworthy experimentation, his symphonies generally reflect the style and structure of the Classical symphony.

Hector Berlioz ’s Symphonie fantastique (1830), subtitled “Episode in the Life of an Artist”, is an example of a “program symphony”, in which the musical piece has a thematic structure expressed by the composer (like Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, the Pastoral). The symphony “tells a story” rather than communicating abstract musical ideas. Charles Gounod remarked (aptly describing the ultimate history of the genre of the symphony), “With Berlioz all impressions, all sensations, whether joyful or sad, are expressed in extremes, at the point of delirium.” [27] Franz Liszt ’s Faust Symphony (1854) and Dante Symphony (1856) are also program symphonies recalling more the expressive content of Beethoven than the consistent formal structure of the Classical symphony. Synthesizing the two branches, Johannes Brahms composed four symphonies between 1876 and 1885, and he is generally described as the greatest composer of symphonies in the nineteenth century.

Significant influences on Brahms’s symphonies included both Schubert and Liszt [28] , but it was Beethoven whom Brahms described as “that giant whose steps I always hear behind me.” [29] Brahms's symphonies wed the compositional complexity of the Classical symphony with the highly expressive emotional scope of the Romantic symphony. Other high points of the nineteenth century expressive symphony include Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky , who composed six symphonies between 1866 and 1893; Anton Bruckner , who composed nine symphonies during 1865 - 1896 that especially recall Beethoven in their grandiose structures, [30] ; and Antonin Dvořák , who composed nine symphonies between 1865 and 1893 that reflect the influence of Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms.

A variation on the “program symphony” was the “symphonic poem” or “tone poem”, a symphonic work not specifically classified as a symphony; the most famous composer of tone poems, which are typically in one movement, is probably Richard Strauss (e.g., Thus spake Zarathustra), whose symphonic work has been described as one of the last breaths of the Romantic age. In the expressive symphony pioneered by Beethoven, the dynamic range of the various moods is more dramatically pronounced than in the Classical symphony: the joy is more boisterous, the lyrical more tender, the alarm more strident, the melancholy more depressive. The most prominent twentieth century symphonies would continue in this "dramatic" vein. The twentieth century After Beethoven, there was a line of thought that argued that the genre of the symphony had reached a sort of end with Beethoven.

For example, the Grove Dictionary of Music of 1889 wrote, "it might seem almost superfluous to trace the history of Symphony further after Beethoven.” In the same vein, Richard Wagner in his essay Opera and Drama (1852) alluded to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as “the very last work of its kind”. [31] Obviously, however, the genre of the symphony persisted throughout the nineteenth century, and still remained a prominent subject in the twentieth. The genre of the symphony was largely an Austro-German phenomenon for most of its history (Berlioz, for example, was one of the very few Frenchmen composing symphonies in the nineteenth century). The “great symphonic tradition” as it were was passed primarily to the Russians of the twentieth century (of whom Dmitri Shostakovich is the most highly regarded). However, in the twentieth century, the symphony, for the first time, became a major worldwide phenomenon, with composers across the globe trying their hand at the genre which some nineteenth century commentators had called "dead" or "defunct".

Although some major orchestral composers of the twentieth century (such as Claude Debussy and Béla Bartók) never wrote a single symphony, there were many composers, in Europe and Russia as well as in Great Britain and America, who kept the idea of the symphony alive. Some of the most prominent composers who can be described as following in the tradition and spirit of the European symphony include: [32] Alfred Schnittke (Russia), eight symphonies, 1972-1994 A full list of twentieth century composers of symphonies would consist of hundreds of names; yet no new symphony after Beethoven has gained the stature that his Ninth has, though almost two hundred years have now passed since it was written. In the twentieth century (and beyond), the overall structure of the symphony remained as flexible as it had ever been. Symphonies, although generally structured in four movements, can, in fact, be structured according to the wishes of the composer. For example, Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony is in five movements, Mahler’s Eighth is in two movements, Shostakovich’s Fourteenth is in eleven movements, and Schnittke’s Fourth is structured as one movement.

Symphonies can start or end fast or slow, and can consist, if the composer wishes, of all fast movements or all slow movements. The average performance time for a nineteenth and twentieth century symphony is around 35 to 40 minutes, but many symphonies (including all of Mahler's and many of Shostakovich’s) take over 50 minutes to perform. Some twentieth century symphonies hark back to the "program symphony" (e.g., Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antarctica), while others recall the manner of Haydn (e.g. Stravinsky's Symphony in C); some were written for children (Prokofiev’s Seventh Symphony) [33] , while others are more dark and troubled and "internal" than ever before, often representative of the disjointed, moment-by-moment shifting states of mind of the composer. At the end of the third movement of his Symphony No. 10, Shostakovich goes so far as to encode his initials in the melody (the sequence D, E-flat, C, B, in German notation, is represented as D, S, C, H).

The slow movement of a symphony (specifically, the adagio) achieved new depths of gloom and mournfulness in the twentieth century, such as in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 and Schnittke’s Symphony No. 6. Just as music scholar Gerald Abraham refers to a European symphonic “line” from Schubert to Mahler [34] , so Alexander Ivashkin, world renowned cellist and music scholar, has written: “With Schnittke’s music we are possibly standing at the end of the great symphonic route from Mahler to Shostakovich.” [35] Naming of symphonies A symphony is generally referred to simply by its number, as “Symphony No. –”, but some symphonies have also been given names or subtitles by their composers, or nicknames by others, such as Haydn’s Symphony No. 94, the Surprise Symphony; Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, Jupiter; Schumann’s Third, Rheinische Symphonie; Mahler’s Second, Resurrection; Dvořák’s Ninth, From the New World; Shostakovich’s Seventh, Leningrad; and Schnittke’s Second, St.

Florian. The name doesn’t take the place of the primary designation, i.e. “Symphony No. – ”, but stands alongside it. Some symphonies have only names, as with Liszt's Faust and Dante Symphonies, or Beethoven's Battle Symphony, which stands apart from his numbered ones. The music of symphonies has entered popular culture, in everything from film scores to adaptations such as the disco hit A Fifth of Beethoven. As such, the public tends to remember a subtitle or nickname better than the formal title. Schubert's aforementioned Eighth Symphony is generally referred to as the Unfinished Symphony, while the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is known by English speakers as the Ode to Joy, after the Goethe text which features in it.

Notes Joseph Haydn | Austrian composer | Britannica.com Austrian composer Alternative Title: Franz Joseph Haydn Joseph Haydn Igor Stravinsky Joseph Haydn, in full Franz Joseph Haydn (born March 31, 1732, Rohrau, Austria —died May 31, 1809, Vienna ), Austrian composer who was one of the most important figures in the development of the Classical style in music during the 18th century. He helped establish the forms and styles for the string quartet and the symphony . Joseph Haydn, detail of a portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1791; in the collection of the Royal College of … Courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London Joseph Haydn conducting a string quartet. © Archivo Iconografico, S.A./Corbis Early years Haydn was the second son of humble parents. His father was a wheelwright, his mother, before her marriage, a cook for the lords of the village. Haydn early revealed unusual musical gifts, and a cousin who was a school principal and choirmaster in the nearby city of Hainburg offered to take him into his home and train him.

Haydn, not yet six years old, left home, never to return to the parental cottage except for rare brief visits. The young Haydn sang in the church choir, learned to play various instruments, and obtained a good basic knowledge of music. But his life changed decisively when he was eight years old. The musical director of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna had observed the boy on a visit to Hainburg and invited him to serve as chorister at the Austrian capital’s most important church. Haydn’s parents accepted the offer, and thus in 1740 Haydn moved to Vienna. He stayed at the choir school for nine years, acquiring an enormous practical knowledge of music by constant performances but, to his disappointment, receiving little instruction in music theory. He had to work hard to fulfill his obligations as a chorister, and when his voice changed, he was expelled from both the cathedral choir and the choir school. With no money and few possessions, Haydn at 17 was left to his own devices. He found refuge for a while in the garret of a fellow musician and supported himself “miserably” with odd musical jobs.

He meanwhile undertook an arduous course of self-instruction through the study of musical works—notably those of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach —and of leading manuals of musical theory. A fortunate chance brought him to the attention of the Italian composer and singing teacher Nicola Porpora , who accepted him as accompanist for voice lessons and corrected Haydn’s compositions . Britannica Stories Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent With persistence and energy, Haydn made progress. He was eventually introduced to the music-loving Austrian nobleman Karl Joseph von Fürnberg, in whose home he played chamber music . For the instrumentalists there he wrote his first string quartets. Through the recommendation of Fürnberg, in 1758 Haydn was engaged as musical director and chamber composer for the Bohemian count Ferdinand Maximilian von Morzin. Haydn was put in charge of an orchestra of about 16 musicians, and for this ensemble he wrote his first symphony as well as numerous divertimenti for wind band or for wind instruments and strings. These early musical compositions were still conventional in character, yet a certain freshness of melodic invention and sparkle marked them as the work of a future master.

Esterházy patronage Haydn stayed only briefly with von Morzin, as financial difficulties forced his patron to dismiss the orchestra. Soon Haydn was invited to enter the service of Prince Pál Antal Esterházy . The Esterházys were one of the wealthiest and most-influential families of the Austrian empire and boasted a distinguished record of supporting music. Prince Pál Antal had a well-appointed orchestra performing regularly in his castle at Eisenstadt , a small town some 30 miles (48 km) from Vienna. Because his aged music director was ailing, the prince appointed the relatively unknown Haydn to be assistant conductor in 1761. While the music director oversaw church music , Haydn conducted the orchestra and coached the singers in almost daily rehearsals, composed most of the music required, and served as chief of the musical personnel. Haydn carried out his duties extremely well and revealed tact, good nature, and skill in dealing with people. From his first symphonies written for the Esterházys, Haydn amply displayed his characteristic good humour and wit, as well as the dependable freshness of his musical ideas, although full maturity would come much later.

His employment by the Esterházy family proved decisive for his career, and he remained in their service until his death. Joseph Haydn. Editor Picks: Exploring 10 Types of Basketball Movies In 1766 Haydn became musical director at the Esterházy court. He raised the quality and increased the size of the prince’s musical ensembles by appointing many choice instrumentalists and singers. His ambitious plans were supported by Prince Miklós, who, on the death of his brother in 1762, had become head of the Esterházy family. He was able to appreciate Haydn’s musical contributions and created an atmosphere conducive to the development and maturing of Haydn’s art. In addition to composing operas for the court, Haydn composed symphonies, string quartets, and other chamber music. The prince was a passionate performer on the baryton , and Haydn provided for his patron more than 150 compositions featuring this now-obsolete cellolike instrument. Music: Fact or Fiction? Haydn served Prince Miklós for nearly 30 years.

He frequently visited Vienna in the prince’s retinue, and on these visits a close friendship developed between himself and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . The two composers felt inspired by each other’s work. Mozart declared that he had learned from Haydn how to write quartets and dedicated a superb set of six such works to his “beloved friend.” Haydn’s music, too, shows the impact of his young friend. The mature composer was by no means set in his ways; he was flexible and receptive to new ideas. Listen: Haydn, Joseph: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major First movement, “Allegro moderato,” of Joseph Haydn’s Cello … During the 1760s Haydn’s fame began to spread throughout Europe. The Austrian and Czech monasteries did much to disseminate his church music as well as his symphonies, divertimenti, sonatas, and concertos. Aristocratic patrons in south Germany, Italy, and the Austrian empire assiduously collected his music, and their libraries would eventually become important sources for copies of his work. The period from 1768 to about 1774 marks Haydn’s maturity as a composer.

The music written then, from the Stabat Mater (1767) to the large-scale Missa Sancti Nicolai (1772), would be sufficient to place him among the chief composers of the era. The many operas he wrote during these years did much to enhance his own reputation and that of the Esterházy court. Among his other important works from this period are the string quartets of Opus 20, the Piano Sonata in C Minor, and the symphonies in minor keys, especially the so-called Trauersymphonie in E Minor, No. 44 (“Mourning Symphony,” so named because its slow movement, which was a particular favourite of the composer, was performed at a memorial service for Haydn) and the “Farewell” Symphony, No. 45. For reasons that have no historical grounding, this has come to be known as Haydn’s Sturm-und-Drang (“storm and stress”) period, after a literary movement that came somewhat later; however inapt historically, the term does describe the character of many of these works and in fact has come to stand for the turgid style they so often exhibit.

Connect with Britannica Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Pinterest The following decade and a half did even more to enhance Haydn’s fame. His operatic output continued strong until 1785, notwithstanding the destruction of the Esterházy opera house by fire in 1779. Increasingly, however, his audience lay outside his employer’s court. In 1775 he composed his first large-scale oratorio, Il ritorno di Tobia, for the Musicians’ Society in Vienna; for unknown reasons, relations between Haydn and the Viennese musicians cooled considerably a few years later. By the early 1780s, though, things seemed much improved, and the Viennese firm Artaria published his six Opus 33 quartets. These important works quickly set a new standard for the genre , putting many of his competitors in this increasingly lucrative market out of business.

(Mozart was a notable exception, but even he took several years to complete his own set of six quartets.) In 1784 Haydn revised Tobia for another Viennese performance, adding choral numbers and cutting back on some of the extended da capo structures, a clear sign that he was well aware of changing sensibilities. In mid-decade as well came a commission from Paris to compose a set of symphonies, and Haydn’s resulting “Paris” symphonies are a landmark of the genre. It was also about this time that he received the commission to compose the Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross; for the incorrigibly cheerful Haydn, writing seven successive dour movements was a particularly difficult undertaking, but the effort resulted in one of his most-admired works. Trending Topics Eyjafjallajökull volcano Haydn’s professional success was not matched in his personal life. His marriage to Maria Anna Keller in 1760 produced neither a pleasant, peaceful home nor any children. Haydn’s wife did not understand music and showed no interest in her husband’s work. Her disdain went to the extremes of using his manuscripts for pastry pan linings or curl papers.

Haydn was not insensitive to the attractions of other women, and for years he carried on a love affair with Luigia Polzelli, a young Italian mezzo-soprano in the prince’s service. English period Listen: Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise) Excerpt from the second movement, “Andante,” of Joseph Haydn’s … When Prince Miklós died in 1790, he was succeeded by his son, Prince Antal, who did not care for music and dismissed most of the court musicians. Haydn was retained, however, and continued to receive his salary. No duties were required of him, enabling Haydn to do whatever he pleased. After such a long time at the Esterházy court, however, the composer was eager to try a different way of life. At this point a violinist and concert manager, Johann Peter Salomon, arrived from England and commissioned from Haydn 6 new symphonies and 20 smaller compositions to be conducted by the composer himself in a series of orchestral concerts in London sponsored by Salomon. Haydn gladly accepted this offer, and the two men set off for London in December 1790.

On New Year’s Day 1791, Haydn arrived in England, and the following 18 months proved extremely rewarding. The many novel impressions, the meeting with eminent musicians, and the admiration bestowed on him had a powerful impact on his creative work. He was feted, lionized, and treated as a genius; Charles Burney published a poem in his honour. The 12 symphonies he wrote on his first and second visits to London represent the climax of his orchestral output. Their virtuosity of instrumentation, masterly treatment of musical forms, and freely flowing melodic inspiration—not to mention their deft wit—endeared the works to British audiences. Their popularity is reflected in the various nicknames bestowed on them—e.g., The Surprise (No. 94), Military (No. 100), The Clock (No. 101), and Drumroll (No. 103). Listen: Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 100 in G Major (Military) The second movement, “Allegretto,” of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony … In June 1792 Haydn left London for Germany.

On his journey he stopped at Bonn , where the 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven was introduced to him, and it was arranged that the tempestuous young composer should move to Vienna to receive Haydn’s instruction. In a letter of 1793 to Beethoven’s patron, the elector of Cologne, Haydn stated that “Beethoven will one day be considered one of Europe’s greatest composers, and I shall be proud to be called his teacher.” Haydn’s curiously cool reception on his return to Vienna in 1792 may have strengthened his decision to make a second journey to England in January 1794. The principal compositions of his second visit to London were the second set of London (or Salomon) symphonies (Nos. 99–104) and the six Apponyi quartets (Nos. 54–59). While in London, Haydn reached even greater heights of inspiration, particularly in the last three symphonies he wrote (Nos. 102–104), of which the Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major is one of the greatest of all symphonies.

The British public no longer regarded him as a sensation but as an old and well-loved friend. King George III earnestly invited him to stay in England, but Haydn—for reasons that have never been made clear—preferred to return to his native Austria to serve the new head of the Esterházy family, Prince Miklós II. The late Esterházy and Viennese period Listen: Haydn, Joseph: Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), “Chor des Landvolks” (“Chorus of the Peasants”): “Komm, holder Lenz!” “Chor des Landvolks” (“Chorus of the Peasants”): Komm, holder Lenz!” … Listen: Haydn, Joseph: The Seasons, “Knure, schnurre, Rädchen schnurre!” The chorus “ Knure, schnurre, Rädchen schnurre! ” from the Winter section … While in London in 1791, Haydn had been deeply moved by the performance of George Frideric Handel’s masterly oratorios .

Deciding to compose further works in this genre, he obtained a suitable libretto , and, after settling in Vienna and resuming his duties for Prince Esterházy, he started work on the oratorio The Creation , the text of which had been translated into German by Baron Gottfried van Swieten. The work was planned and executed to enable performances in either German or English; it is believed to be the first musical work published with text underlay in two languages. The libretto was based on the epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton and on the Genesis book of the Bible. Composing the oratorio proved a truly congenial task, and the years devoted to it were among the happiest in Haydn’s life. The Creation was first publicly performed in 1798 and earned enormous popularity subsequently. Haydn was thus encouraged to produce another oratorio , which absorbed him until 1801. An extended poem, The Seasons , by James Thomson , was chosen as the basis for the (much shorter) libretto, again adapted and translated—if somewhat awkwardly—by van Swieten so as to enable performance in either German or English.

The libretto allowed Haydn to compose delightful musical analogues of events in nature, and as a result the oratorio achieved much success, both at the Austrian court and in public performances (although not in London). Yet its musical imagery was even then seen as old-fashioned—a circumstance ruefully acknowledged by Haydn, who blamed van Swieten’s poor advice regarding text setting. Haydn’s late creative output included six masses written for his patron Miklós II. Those are among the most-significant masses of the 18th century. He also continued to compose magnificent string quartets, notably the six Erdödy quartets known as Opus 76. In 1797 Haydn gave to the Austrian nation the stirring song “ Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ” (“God Save Emperor Francis”). It was used for more than a century as the national anthem of the Austrian monarchy and as the patriotic song “ ” (“Germany, Germany Above All Else”) in Germany, where it remains the national anthem as “ Deutschlandlied. ” The song was so beloved that Haydn decided to use it as a theme for variations in one of his finest string quartets, the Emperor Quartet (Opus 76, No. 3).

“The Seasons broke my back,” Haydn is reported to have said; and indeed, apart from the last two masses of 1801 and 1802, he undertook no more large-scale works. During the last years of his life, he was apparently incapable of further work. In 1809 Napoleon’s forces besieged Vienna and in May entered the city. Haydn refused to leave his house and take refuge in the inner city. Napoleon placed a guard of honour outside Haydn’s house, and the enfeebled composer was much touched by the visit of a French hussars’ officer who sang an aria from The Creation. On May 31 Haydn died peacefully, and he was buried two days later. Works, development, and achievement Haydn was an extremely prolific composer.

His total output includes 108 symphonies , one of which (number 106) is lost and one of which (number 105) is actually a symphonie concertante ; 68 string quartets ; 32 divertimenti for small orchestra; 126 trios for baryton, viola, and cello; 29 trios for piano, violin , and cello; 21 trios for two violins and cello; 47 piano sonatas ; about 20 operas ; 14 masses ; 6 oratorios ; and 2 cello concerti. Haydn’s achievement was long confused by the fact that an enormous number of works were wrongly attributed to him, and it was not until the 1950s that musicological research was able to pare this staggering amount of spurious attributions from Haydn’s recognized output. Work on a definitive catalog of his compositions continued into the late 20th century. In his youth and early career, Haydn experimented with the prevailing stylistic trends.

He was familiar with the pompous and complex idiom of the preceding Baroque period; he then adopted the light, gay, and elegant musical style that was popular at the time in Austria; and he was subsequently influenced by the strongly emotional and expressive style preferred by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and other north German composers. He eventually achieved his own distinctive musical identity by using some elements from all three of these styles simultaneously. Listen: Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 83 in G Minor (The Hen) The fourth movement, “Finale: Vivace,” of Joseph Haydn’s … Listen: Haydn, Joseph: Symphony No. 85 in B-flat Major (La reine) (“The Queen”) The second movement, “Romanze Allegretto,” of Joseph Haydn’s … During the 1760s Haydn began to solidify and deepen his style. His new technique of working with small motifs to tighten the fabric of the sonata form turned the first movement of the sonata, quartet, and symphony into a little musical drama.

In the period from 1768 to 1774, his music took on a deeper hue; the intellectualization that had steadily increased throughout the 1760s at last found its natural outlet in the mid-1780s, when he seems to have regained the emotional strength that so much of his work had lost after the outburst of the early 1770s. His Paris symphonies (Nos. 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, and 87; 1785–86) are miracles of beauty and formal perfection combined with great profundity, noticeable especially in the slow movement of No. 86 in D. Listen: “Erdody Quartets” Excerpt from the Erdödy Quartets (1797) by Joseph Haydn. The London visits injected a new force in Haydn’s music, but, side by side with a greatly increased nervous tension, his works began to take on an emotional depth often characteristic of the music of an aging composer. Haydn began to explore new harmonic relationships, particularly in the late piano trios.

On his return to Vienna he concentrated almost exclusively on vocal music and the string quartet . The last six masses he composed are pillars of symphonic strength and grandeur, ranging from the brightness of the Missa in tempore belli (1796) to the terse drama of the Nelson Mass in D minor (1798). Here the symphonic principles brought to perfection in the London symphonies are brilliantly combined with older contrapuntal forms (see counterpoint ). Solo voices are blended with vocal quartet and choir, and there is a constant juxtaposition of the available forces. Haydn’s last instrumental works were the six Erdödy quartets (Opus 76; 1797), the two Lobkowitz quartets (Opus 77; 1799), and the “Unfinished” quartet (Opus 103; 1803). In these works he brought the art of the quartet to a new pinnacle that was not to be equaled until the quartets of Beethoven in his maturity. Haydn was a true representative of the Enlightenment .

His optimistic approach to life; his striving for a balance between intellect and emotion; his sense of moderation, leading to the avoidance of strongly discordant moods; all these found superb expression in his music and were appreciated by his contemporaries. Music lovers also found irresistible the nobility and deceptive simplicity of his idiom, sparked by delightful outbreaks of humour. The gaiety and naturalness of Haydn’s music held less appeal to the Romantic era of the 19th century, however, when dark, complex moods and ambivalent emotions were being explored in music; although many of his symphonies and quartets were performed with some frequency well past 1850, by the end of the century they had all but slipped from the repertory. But in the 20th century there was a reevaluation of Haydn’s work, and his outstanding thematic elaborations, his dependably engaging wit, the originality of his modulations , and the artistry and superb craftsmanship of his orchestration were again appreciated in full measure. 1000+ images about Haydn on Pinterest | Choirs, London and Free sheet music Forward Joseph Haydn. Symphony No. 98.

Not played as much as some of his others, but one of his most remarkable creations.There are somber passages uncharacteristic of Haydn; some think the Adagio is a tribute to Mozart, whose death had a profound effect on Haydn. ("I could not believe that Providence would so soon claim the life of such an indispensable man.") There is no recording online that does justice to this piece. The gold standard for Haydn's last symphonies is the set recorded by Colin… See More Symphony No.104 in D major, Hob.I:104 (Haydn, Joseph) - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music Symphony No.104 in D major, Hob.I:104 (Haydn, Joseph) Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1795 Genre Categories Live Recording, 12/Oct/2014, Suenaga Hall, Fukuoka Purchase Recorded 1955 September 21, Septembre Musical de Montreux , Salle du Pavillon. Purchase Javascript is required for this feature. Naxos Search Vienna: Universal Edition , n.d.(ca.1910).

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Notes Published as Quintuor arrangé d'une grande sinfonie... (composée pour le concert de M. Salomon à Londres) Liv. III. N°7 together with arrangements of symphonies No.103 and No.102) 450 dpi greyscale scans, deskewed and cropped to consistent size. A very low resolution scan (<72 dpi) can be downloaded directly from F-Pn Purchase George Szell conducts Haydn Symphonies - Sony: 88697687792 | Buy from ArkivMusic George Szell conducts Haydn Symphonies Release Date: 01/01/2014 SEE, HEAR & LEARN MORE! Notes & Editorial Reviews Works on This Recording Customer Reviews Notes and Editorial Reviews It says something about Haydnï¿½s aesthetic vision that the best performances of his symphonies, by and large, have all been on modern instruments, whether Szell and Cleveland, Bernstein with various orchestras, Mackerras and St. Lukes, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestraï¿½even Klemperer or Scherchen.

The qualities his music requiresï¿½rhythmic snap, propulsive energy, the long singing line, a sense of humor, a clear feeling for formal resolution in the face of continual surpriseï¿½remain utterly independent of dogmatic approaches to performance style. You take each work as it comes, and make the most of it. Finally, Sony has gathered up and released all of Szellï¿½s Haydn symphony recordings in a box. The six early London symphonies are Read more well-known, but the rest, including Nos. 88, 92 ï¿½Oxfordï¿½, 99, and 104?Londonï¿½ havenï¿½t received nearly as much attention. Nos. 88 and 104 are in well-preserved mono, and you get both recordings of No. 97. The performances are incomparable. Szell was a natural Haydn conductor: witty, razor sharp, colorful, and highly contrasted. The obscene bassoon fart (thatï¿½s what it is) in the slow movement of No. 93 has never been matched; wind parts cut through the texture beautifully; trumpets and drums never sound timid or flabby.

Szell has the strings playing with immaculate rhythm, perfect intonation, and just the right amount of warmth in the slow movements. This is, in fact, an object lesson not in correct ï¿½periodï¿½ style, but in the correct Haydn style. Even in Symphony No. 98, a work that for some reason befuddles even Haydn specialists (Bernstein notably), Szell doesnï¿½t miss a trick. The Mozartian slow movement is especially lovely. He also uses the Landon editions of the scores wherever possibleï¿½one of the first major conductors to do so. The result is a landmark in the Haydn discovery, and a cornerstone of any serious Haydn symphony collection. -ï¿½ David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

Question: Which Austrian composer's symphony number 104 has the title 'London'?
Answer: JOSEPH HAYDN