Streichquartette joseph haydn biography

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    It is fair to say that Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) did more to give the String Quartet the sublime form we know it in than any other early practitioner. The classically proportioned Leipziger Streichquartett has embarked on a very ambitious endeavor of recording the many such works he penned during his lifetime. I report in on the recent String Quartets Vol. 10 (MDG Gold 307 2093-2 ), which covers Haydn's op. 64 nos. 1, 2, and 6.

    The recording gives us spacious, unhurried and focused performances of the three quartets. Haydn after the death of Prince Esterhazy in 1790 was freed of his considerable duties as the court conductor, given a lifetime pension that provided security and freedom, and moved into Vienna's artistic-musical life with a vengeance and intensity denied him during the many years of court service. The op. 64 quartets were a product of this liberation and they bustle with the energy and elation he must have been feeling. They followed in the footsteps of his bre

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    String Quartet in G major, Op. 76, Erdödy, No. 1, Hob.III:75

    Joseph Haydn, 1732-1809

    String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1, 1797

    The six quartets of Op. 76 are frequently and justly described as Haydn's greatest works in the genre. They reflect over 40 years of experience with quartet writing that always placed Haydn at the vanguard of tradition, upset only briefly by Mozart with the six quartets he dedicated to Haydn. By 1797, when Haydn received a commission from the music and quartet loving Hungarian aristocrat Count Joseph Erdödy, Mozart was dead, and his quartet innovations had been reabsorbed by Haydn. Beethoven's första foray in quartet writing would begin one year later, close, but as yet, unknown to anyone. At the age of 64, Haydn had just returned from his second "tour" of England where he was fêted as the greatest living europeisk composer. Now in rather luxurious retirement from his decades-long employment with the Esterhazy family (yet more Hungarian nobilit

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    List of string quartets by Joseph Haydn

    Haydn's 68 authentic String Quartets

    Joseph Haydn wrote sixty-eight string quartets. (The number was previously thought to be eighty-three, but this includes some arrangements and spurious works.) They are usually referred to by their opus numbers, not Anthony van Hoboken's catalogue numbers or their publication order in the First Haydn Edition (FHE).

    Opus 1 (1755–57)[1]

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    • Quartet No. 1 in B♭ major ("La Chasse"), Op. 1, No. 1, FHE No. 52, Hoboken No. III:1
    • Quartet No. 2 in E♭ major, Op. 1, No. 2, FHE No. 53, Hoboken No. III:2
    • Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 1, No. 3, FHE No. 54, Hoboken No. III:3
    • Quartet No. 4 in G major, Op. 1, No. 4, FHE No. 55, Hoboken No. III:4
    • Quartet No. 5 in E♭ major, Op. 1, No. 0, Hoboken No. II:6 (also referred to as Opus 0)
    • Quartet in B♭ major, Op. 1, No. 5, FHE No. 56, Hoboken No. III:5 (later found to be the Symphony A, Hob. I/107)
    • Quartet No. 6 in C major,
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