Symphony No. 42 (Haydn)
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The Symphony No. 42 in D major, Hoboken I/42, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. The symphony was composed by 1771. It is scored for two oboes, two bassoons, two horns and strings.
The work is in four movements:
- Moderato e maestoso, 2/2
- Andantino e cantabile, 3/8 in A major
- Menuet & Trio: Allegretto, 3/4
- Finale: Scherzando e presto, 2/4
The first movement "is marked by the lively acciaccature that appear in the first bar."[1] Generally in this period the winds were tacet for the slow movement, and here they are silent at first, but they come in later.[1] The last movement has been described as a "novel use of the rondo form,"[2] and H. C. Robbins Landon even goes so far as to call it a "characteristic Haydnesque rondo" and perhaps the first such rondo,[3] though others point out that it is not the sonata rondo that has come to be associated with Haydn.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Keith Anderson, "About This Recording" Naxos 8.570761
- ↑ William E. Grim, Haydn's Sturm und Drang Symphonies: Form and Meaning. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press (1990): 52.
- ↑ H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 2. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press (1976): 301
- ↑ Grim (1990): 53
