Symphony No. 48 (Haydn)
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The Symphony No. 48 in C major (Hoboken I/48) is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. The work has the nickname Maria Theresia as it was thought to have been composed for a visit by the Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresa of Austria.
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[edit] Date of composition and scoring
The symphony was composed between 1768 and 1770. It is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns (one in C alto, the other in F), and strings. Parts for two trumpets and timpani were added later but scholars are not sure whether or not these really are by Haydn.[1] Some copies of the Eulenburg edition include two different timpani parts on the same staff, the more doubtful version differentiated by stems down and written in a facsimile of handwriting.
[edit] Movements
- I. Allegro
- II. Adagio
- III. Menuet: Allegretto & trio
- IV. Finale: Allegro
H. C. Robbins Landon calls this symphony a "great and indeed germinal work" and says that it is one of the very few Haydn symphonies of this period that survived all through the nineteenth century in various editions.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ H. C. Robbins Landon, The Symphonies of Joseph Haydn New York: Macmillan (1956): 688. "Originally for 2 ob., 2 cor. in C alto and F, str. [fag.] Parts for 2 clarini and timp. added later; It is not certain that the crude timpani part in the EH archives is really Haydn's. ... The modern trumpet and timp. parts as pub. in the B & H. orchestral parts and the Eulenburg score (etc.) are patent forgeries."
- ^ HC Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works, 5 vols, (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976-) v. 2, Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790
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