Tag: Franz Joseph Haydn

  • PROGRAM NOTES: SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF

    PROGRAM NOTES: SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF

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    Franz Joseph Haydn Sonata No. 60 in C major Hob. XV1:50 Haydn’s last three piano sonatas, Nos. 60 to 62 (Hob. XVI:50-52), were written during the composer’s second trip to London of 1794-1795. All three were composed with a specific dedicatee in mind: the female keyboard virtuoso Therese Jansen Bartolozzi (1770-1843), a student of Clementi…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: DORIC STRING QUARTET

    PROGRAM NOTES: DORIC STRING QUARTET

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    FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2 Those of us wondering in our spare moments what a happy retirement consists of might do well to consider the case of one Franz Joseph Haydn, whose life in the years 1796-97, when his collection of six string quartets Op. 76 was written,…