Haydn

How To Use Haydn In A Sentence

• And under van Daele's sure hand, this came off remarkably well, with a vivid allegro, lovely andante, one of Haydn's zesty minuets and a finale that carries the title ‘la Tempesta’ for good reason.
• Joseph Haydn's works include 104 symphonies and 84 string quartets.
• The opening Vivace of No. 102 is the most dynamic and densely argued movement in all Haydn's symphonies.
• Haydn, even if marginally heavy-footed, is always a party for your ears and woefully underrated in this country.
• They learnt to take themes which did not sound exactly like the subjects of a fugue; they laid out their first and their second, and then they did not know what on earth to do, and footled and stumbled till it was time for the recapitulation; so that Haydn himself said the worst of the young men was that they could not stick long enough at anything to work it out, and no sooner began one thing than they wanted to be off to another. Haydn
• The string quartet, for two violins, viola and violoncello, was one of the most widely-cultivated genres of chamber music during the Classical period, with the Viennese masters Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all contributing substantially to the literature. The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840 (Duke University)
• Haydn, being now his own master, went to live at Vienna, with his old friend Bamberger, and, declining an invitation to become capellmeister to Count Grassalcovics, was working with his usual industry when, one day, a visitor was announced. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
• Like his contemporaries, Joseph Haydn wrote very early divertimentos for string quartet.
• The opening of Haydn's 'Drum Roll' is fittingly ominous.
• In Haydn's time symphonists favoured D and B flat major.