Tracks:
1.
Cello Concerto
I Allegro moderato Part I
2. Cello Concerto I Allegro
moderato Part II
3. Cello Concerto II Adagio
4. Cello Concerto III Rondo: Allegro
5. Symphony No. 103 I
Adagio: Allegro con spirito
6. Symphony No. 103 II
Andante piu tosto Allegretto
7. Symphony No. 103 III Menuet
8. Symphony No. 103 IV Finale:
Allegro con spirito
9. Trumpet Concerto I Allegro
10.
Trumpet Concerto
II Andante
11.
Trumpet Concerto
III Allegro
12.
Haydn’s Early
Life and Career
13.
Listener’s Guide
to Haydn Cello Concerto
14.
Haydn’s Mastery
15.
Listener’s Guide
to Symphony No 103 Movement I
16.
Listener’s Guide:
Movement II Major & Minor Keys
17.
Listener’s Guide:
Symphony No 103 Movements III & IV
18.
Haydn’s Final
Years and Lasting Influence
Haydn and the Classical Period
More than any other composer, Franz Joseph
Haydn deserves to be called the father of music’s “Classical” style. As he came of age in the mid-eighteenth
century, musical thinking was in the midst of profound changes. The compositional forms and procedures of the Baroque era
began to seem old-fashioned and composers sought fresh modes of musical expression. Out of their search emerged brand new
musical forms, most notably the symphony and string quartet, and a new style that valued poetic melodies and harmonies over
“learned” counterpoint.
Haydn played a crucial role in establishing new classical forms. For all practical
purposed he invented the string quartet as a musical form, and his contributions to the symphony helped develop that format
from a modest off-shoot of the opera overture into the most potent and attractive type of instrumental music available to
composers.
Haydn’s
symphonies established the defining traits of this most important genre of music, and they were the source from which all
subsequent developments in the symphonic composition would spring. He developed the concept of the orchestra as an organic
whole. Haydn wrote for each instrument in keeping with its natural character, and in a way that would blend well with the
other members of the orchestra. Moreover, Haydn established procedures of thematic development, particularly the technique
of deriving whole passages from a single brief melodic idea. His extraordinary imagination and freshness served as an ideal
of musical inventiveness to generations of later composers.
Haydn’s Early Life and Career
Haydn
was born in 1732 into a humble family in Rohrau, a small town near the present-day border of Austria and Hungary. He was no child prodigy, but
his fine singing voice won him a place in a choir school in a nearby town. There, Haydn remembered, he received “more
thrashings than food,” but he received a basic education in music. When he was seven, Haydn gained a place in the choir
of Saint Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, now famous as the Vienna Boys Choir. He resided at cathedral school for most of the next decade,
acquiring a solid, though not spectacular, musical and general education.
