HAAAAAY-DENNNN.
DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE NOT A MEP STUDENT. cos it might bore you. unless you have a secret crush on my soon-to-be-ex boyfriend, JOSEPH HAY-DEN :D
31 march 1732 - 31 may 1809
born in austria rohrau died in vienna
was a choirboy in st stephen cathedral until he broke his voice at the age of 17.
composed missa brevis in F
met nicola popora who introduced him to other composers and took 2 composition lessons with reutter. then he went to work for count morzin where he arranged songs for him. then he went to the esterhazys to work for prince anton as vice kapiellmaster and gregor werner was the kapellmeister. after gregor werner died (mysteriously, HAHA) he was promoted to kapellmeister. then he met luigi tomasini who is a violinist. then after prince anton died, he worked for prince nikolaus and had to composed according to his requests example for the baryton, an instrument prince nikolaus plays. he became friends with mozart which he influenced in the future on his string quartets and he also met composers such as sweiten which he studied the works of bach and handel together. after prince nikolaus died, he was invited by JP salomon to go to london and compose 12 symphonies on his two trips to london, 1791-1792 and 1794-1795
london symphony no. 104 is first performed on 4th may 1795 (: in king theatre's with haydn conducting at the piano and it received good comments and an encore was requested.
Symphonies:
still have the baroque style of fast slow fast. written for strings, 2 oboes, 2 horns and basso continuo. sometimes programmatic material eg OP 31 hornsignal where there is a solo horncall. strum und drang style is used in no. 44 and 52 where the song in the the minor key. in no. 44, monothematicism is also used. later symphonies have more harmonic richness and expressions. and more deviations from the original symphony structure. eg. false reprise is used in the dev section in the sonta form. and sonata-rondo form is used. simpler themes are used so that more development on the themes are reached.
london symphonies are more elborate and adventurous where more modulations are made and wider instrumentations are made.
string quartets:
although he was not the founder of the string quartets but he shaped the development of the quartets therefore he was usually known as PAPA HAYDN. he composed 40 symphonies before he composed the string quartets therefore the symphonies traits still prevailed in the string quartets. at first only the violins had the main melody but this was further improved and explored by haydn in his string quartets. his characteristic traits are contrapunctal, homophonic texture, imitative, monothematicism, folk-like simple melodies later fragmented and expanded in later symphonies. haydn wits are shown in his false starts, unexpected and abrupted conclusions.
mozart dedicated his K168-175 show much of haydn's influence. K 458 'The Hunt' and K 456 'Dissonance' also clearly show haydn's influence on mozart and they are known as haydn quartets.
works he composed:
l'amina del filosofo
the creation
farewell symphony #45 in f sharp minor
drumroll no 103 in e flat major performed on 2 march 1795 in king's theatre
te deum in C
english songs by anne hunter
string quartets (apponyi, the lark, the emperor)
books he referred to:
"fux's grandues ad parassum" for the contrapunctal techniques
"the art of keyboard" by CPE Bach for the homophonic styles
HOB: catalogue by Anthony van Hoboken to classify haydn's works
okay did you fall asleep or skip it? I BET SO. HOHO this spitting was not really accurate cos i referred to my notes for the string quartets one, i really need talk more to myself later to remember. I CAN SING HAYDN SYMPHONY BACKWARDS! ya right, i can only do it forward. haha anddd, i am not even studying world/western music. LADY LUCK PLEASE HELP ME :/
and i am not jealous of the combined science
PS DOUY, THIS IS WHAT I AM SPITTING. HAHA