Symphony No.27 in G major, Hob.I:27 – Joseph Haydn 'Adam Fischer'

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Symphony No.27 in G major, Hob.I:27 – Joseph Haydn ‘Adam Fischer’

Composition Year: 1757-60
First Publication: 1908?

Performers:

Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Adam Fischer – Conductor

Recorded: Haydnsaal, Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria, Septemper 1990

00:01 1. Allegro molto (G major)
05:54 2. Andante. siciliano (C major)
10:31 3. Finale. Presto (G major)

Work:

Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 27 in G major (Hoboken I/:7) was probably written before March 19, 1761, while he was employed by Count Morzin. Its chronological position was assigned by Eusebius Mandyczewski in 1907. Although later adopted by Hoboken, Robbins Landon has subsequently revised the work’s likely chronological position and now believes that the symphony is one of Haydn’s earliest, written at roughly the same time as symphonies nos. 15–18. Haydn himself may have labeled the symphony his 16th, although this remains unclear.

Nickname (Hermannstädter)

In 1946, a copy of the symphony was discovered in the summer palace of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal near the city of Hermannstadt (now Sibiu in Romania). Originally thought to be an original discovery, the symphony briefly acquired the nickname Hermannstädter after it was recorded under that title by the Prague Symphony Orchestra with the Rumanian conductor Constantin Silvestri. Because of the political climate in Eastern Europe following the Second World War, it was some time before musicologists were able to examine the find and realize that the manuscript was a copy of a work that had already been published by Breitkopf & Hartel in 1907.

Movements

Manuscript evidence suggests this work was originally scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, strings and continuo. Horns were subsequently added to the score, probably by Haydn himself. The work is in three movements:

Allegro molto, 4/4
Andante, C major 6/8 (Siciliano)
Presto, 3/8

Despite the small forces at Haydn’s disposal, the symphonic expression is broad and vigorous. The main theme of the opening movement hints at the Mannheim Rocket, although in abbreviated fashion. The second hybrid subject employs a developmental device quite common in Haydn’s early works. It starts in the dominant major but concludes in the dominant minor, setting up a bright contrast with the closing refrain of the exposition.

The second movement is a lilting 6

8 siciliano played on muted strings and without winds or horns. Robbins Landon describes the movement “as Italian an andante as was ever composed in Naples or Palermo”.

The symphony concludes with a bright, upbeat and brief finale that, like many of his other early works, is developmentally straightforward.

Biography:

Franz Joseph Haydn, 31 March[b] 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet”.

Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their Eszterháza Castle. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, “forced to become original”. Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.

He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a tutor of Beethoven, and the elder brother of composer Michael Haydn.

Wikipedia’s biography: http://bit.ly/3Izz0DZ

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Music contained in this video is licensed to: Brilliant Classics, June, 2000. Nimbus.

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