Haydn, Joseph

Joseph Haydn – Konzert für Oboe und Orchester in C-Dur (Hob VIIg: C1), Bearbeitung von Alexander Wunderer

(b. Rohrau, Lower Austria, 21 March 1732 — d. Vienna, 31 May 1809)

arranged by
Alexander Wunderer
(1877 – 1955)

Allegro spiritoso p.1
Andante p.35
Allegretto p.41

Preface
Franz Joseph Haydn numbers among the great composers of the Western classical tradition and is member of the so-called Viennese School, a famous triumvirate that includes W. A. Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Among these three iconic composers, Haydn and his music are arguably the least well-known, despite his massive oeuvre and undeniable impact on the development of the musical forms and styles of high Classicism. This is perhaps due in part to Haydn’s relatively unromantic, workaday life: in contrast to the money troubles, personal dramas, illnesses and itinerancies of Mozart and Beethoven, Haydn enjoyed status and stable employment in the service of Hungarian nobility—the Esterhazy family (at whose court he was affectionately known as “Papa Haydn”)—for many decades. Later in life, Haydn was released from service and enjoyed a second career as a superstar composer. His works were commissioned and performed to great acclaim in Paris and London, he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford, he was monumentalized in his birthplace (Rohrau) while he was still alive and near the end of his life, during the French campaign in Austria, was given an honour guard in Vienna by Napoleon himself. While his popularity waned in the later nineteenth century, Haydn has of course since been rediscovered and recognized as the hugely significant figure he was: as both the “father of the symphony” and “father of the string quartet,” and as a direct influence on both Mozart and Beethoven. …

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