Haydn’s String Quartet Opus 76, number 2
The second quartet of Haydn’s Opus 76 is in the key of D minor, and it earned its nickname of “Quinten” (German for Fifths) from the widely spaced descending intervals announced by the first violin …
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Haydn String Quartet Op 77 No. 2
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op 77 No 2 I heard this quartet again today, and I came to the awareness of the huge and profound impact that Joseph Haydn had on so much of the …
Symphony #88 by Josef Haydn
After a slow introduction, the first movement of Haaydn’s Symphony #88 moves into a perky Allegro in which Haydn plays with the conventions of sonata form so that every detail seems spontaneous. To mention just …
Symphony #45, “Farewell” by Joseph Haydn
In his position as Kapellmeister to Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, Joseph Haydn was both an employee and, in a sense, the employer of the fine musicians who comprised the resident house band. In 1772, in what …
Concert Review: English Baroque Soloists at Stanford
Like so many millions of other music lovers, I, too, have not attended a LIVE concert until today. And this afternoon, 014/09/2022, this drought was broken when I attended the concert by the English Baroque …