Haydn: Essential Works for Beginners
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- Haydn: Essential Works for Beginners
Symphony No. 88 in G major
Symphony No. 101 “The Clock”
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
Stabat Mater
Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor “The Farewell”
String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2
Symphony No. 80 in D minor
Piano Trio No. 39 in G major “With The Gypsy Rondo”
The Seven Last Words of the Savior on the Cross (original version for orchestra)
The Creation (oratorio)
Your love of Haydn is contagious. There is such joy in your voice whenever you speak of his work.
One of the many ways Haydn amazes me is the elegance with which he pulls off the most amazing counterpoint.
I am a 23 year old classical music enthusiast and have been a viewer of this channel for around two years now. If I had to pinpoint one thing that I have inculcated in my life since first watching these videos that would be a love for Haydn’s music. Before that, I didn’t really get Haydn and perhaps part of the blame for that lies on the current classical music community which underrates and under-promotes Haydn. However, by following along the Haydn symphony crusade and other Haydn-centric videos in this channel, I have truly started appreciating what a staggering genius Haydn was!
Last weekend, I listened to Haydn live for the first time - the Dover quartet performing the Rider String quartet op 71 no. 6 and it was absolutely thrilling! The two-year younger me probably wouldn’t have cared too much about it though, which made me realize the impact Dave’s videos had on me. So thank you Dave and long live Haydn’s music!
Thank you for watching and listening!
What a genius and such a humble person fancy arriving in London when nearly 60 and having such an impact!
Glad to have you on board the Haydn Crusade too!!! One other work not mentioned here, but one that shows just how varied and forward looking Haydn was, is his 1st Cello Concerto...there are moments in that piece that sound like late Romantic Era music and some that sound like they could have been written yesterday!...check it out if you dont already know it!!!
Few things are as captivating as someone's way of talking about things they love deeply. Thanks for that, Dave!
Thanks, Dave, for this inspiring introduction to Haydn. Your choice of works was truly representative of his inexhaustible genius. I will add my own word of encouragement to your viewers. A great music adventure awaits any listener who sets out to explore Haydn's music. I have been on this adventure for decades and it seems as if I've just begun. Endlessly refreshing, entertaining and ennobling. Haydn touches the very core of human dignity and fragility--and makes us laugh at ourselves. Sometime through tears.
Joseph Haydn’s music has everything and that’s something I admire most about him. His music is all comedic, witty, cute, charming, expressive, melodic, elegant, dark, somber. But most importantly he had structure and that’s what Mozart and Beethoven found attractive in his works. There certainly was immense pressure on the state of 18th century music after Bach died and Haydn was the perfect contender to step up to the plate. I also liked your video about comparing Haydn to Mahler. Both are different composers in every level aside from two things. One, they were both Austrian and two they saw the symphony as the pinnacle of orchestral music.
Incidentally, for Haydn's lovers who would not know it, I wanted to mention that "Joseph Haydn" by Marc Vignal (1500 pages) is the best monograph I ever read on any composer. It is a treasure. The original is in French but it has surely been translated into English.
Thanks - just ordered it!
Excellent choice from someone who knows and loves Haydn possibly like nobody else ! I would have included Symphony No. 26 in D minor "Lamentatione", so incredibly intense and moving (my preferred one !). In addition, it would be a very good coupling with String Quartet Op. 20 No. 5, with which it has much in common.
From day one I was impressed by your passion for music, but your enthusiasm for Haydn is contagious...and I thank you for it 👍
Another great video David on one of my fav composers!
I’ve been on my own Haydn Crusade in recent weeks and reviewing some of your previous videos and listening to your recommendations.
One of the things I find I love about Haydn is how “easy” it is to listen to his works, and I mean that in only a positive and admiring way. I also find the experience of listening it just so pleasing! A timeless genius.
Perhaps my favorite number in The Creation is No. 21, which describes the making of the animals and ends with the worm. I laughed out loud when I heard the worm.
I've listen to all the piano trios (and all the symphonies), and the cello part is more independent than I expected, especiallt the early ones are more like trio sonatas.
Haydn got me into classical Music in High School. Our Music trancher took us to see a styring quartet (think it was op. 20). It was like hearing The Smiths for the first time. My life never became the same again…
Thank you so much, Dave. I don't know much Haydn, outside of some choral music (and, of course, The Clock which I adore). Your survey sent me in search of your discussions of Haydn's oratorios and the Lord Nelson Mass. When I first discovered classical music, I was living in Minneapolis and they had a 24-hour classical music station KSMU which, in my youthful enthusiasm, I listening to for most of those 24 hours. One of the first works I heard performed in a live symphony concert (I don't remember any of the musicians) was the Lord Nelson Mass which I thought was fabulous. In the intervening decades, however, I have tended to abandon Haydn for the late 19th century. My loss, it would seem. Thanks for redirecting me to Haydn.
For sure my favorite composer. I think he's one of the very few artists who can be avantgarde without giving to the listener the impression of sacrificing anything. Everything he does feels new, optimal and complete at the same time. And thank you for including the not so well known Stabat Mater. I will allow myself to complete the list with the Harmoniemesse, the piano trio in E Major Hob. XV:27, the absurdly beautiful trumpet concerto and the very underrated sinfonia concertante.
Piano sonata no. 60 and the Philosopher symphony were my points of entry.
I am looking forward for this great series to continue. Some of the first names that spring to my mind are: Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvorak Tchaikovsky- Saint-Saens, Ricahrd Strauss, Schonberg, Hindemith, Bloch, Martinu...
At the risk of being extra musical and turning people off, I believe Haydn was likely a pretty well-adjusted person. In addition to all the accolades you ascribe to his music, Mr. Dave, Haydn always comes across to me as being emotionally well balanced. Perhaps it is just the period he wrote in, idk. A day with some Haydn is a better day than one without.
I wasn't aware that Haydn wrote a "Stabat Mater"; I will certainly listen to it.
I've just heard Pinnock's Haydn album: Nelson Mass and Te Deum. One of the best Haydn CD ever! (I knew both works earlier but these are extraordinary performances.)
Yes, and there are two other wonderful CDs of Haydn's religious music by Trevor Pinnock : The Theresienmesse + the Sancti Nicolai mass, and the Stabat Mater. Unfortunately, Trevor Pinnock did not record the other Haydn masses.
@@philippecassagne3192I also have the Stabat Mater and I will buy the Theresienmesse. I have the Teldec Harnoncourt 6CD Masses box but it was maybe 10 years ago when I last heard these. As usual these are very Harnoncourt-ish performances.
Agreed!
I don't know if you've ever seen the Peanuts cartoon: Shroeder's playing piano, and for the first three panels, Snoopy is dancing ecstatically around him. In the final panel, Snoopy exclaims "Papa Haydn!!!"
Lovely.
Lovely video essay.
Oh boy, picking just 10 works is a real challenge! There is just too much extraordinary music by Haydn out there. How long did you need to make your choice? Maybe I would prefer symphony 70 instead of 80, as I like the contrapuntal final and the surprise that it (almost) ends in a minor key. Also a great work that usually gets overlooked.
Dave. I was given to understand that Symphony 88 was known as
The Letter V is because the manuscript deposited in Vienna has a crayon mark large V on the title page.
Yes, and Beethoven's Third should be re-titled "The Erasure" because he crossed out "Bonaparte" on the title page. My point was that the nickname tells us nothing about the music.
Marc Vignal (biographer) was stating the letter comes from an old way of classifying some of Haydn's Symphony (I believe that dates from berfore Mandyczewski's numeration). I think I remember the mention of a letter R for a later symphony. Can't remember from where though, sorry.
Surely, I can't be the only person who refers to symphony no. 88 as the "Hurwitz"? 😂
For anyoe looking for the fart joke, It's actually in the slow movement of symphony *93*, not 33!
Whoops. Yep.