What was haydn's first symphony?

Answer 1

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Josef Haydn is generally considered the Father of the Symphony, so this may help lead you to the answer.

- While this is true there is no such thing as 'the' first symphony. The form has evolved almost constantly, and the 4 movements (sonata-allegro, slow, minuet, finale) of Haydn are very different to the one movement or even 15 movements symohonies of modern composers.

In the renessaince and Baroque times the word sympony and overture were used interchangeable and the symphony was often the first prelude in an Opera. Bachs sons, Carl Phillip and Johann Christian both wrote many symphonies though these were in 3 movement.

Joseph Haydn solidified the form and concept of the symphony as a four movement piece described above. Eventually writing 104 symphonies himself.

However by the time of Beethovens Late 9th he had revolutionised it again and during the romantic era it was considered the most important form for musical expression. Here the symphony grew in size, emotional depth and often strayed from conventional Structure.

Answer 2

Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 1 in D major, Hoboken I/1, was written in 1759 in Lukavec.[1] Though identified by Haydn himself as his first symphony, scholars aren't sure if it is indeed the very first symphony Haydn wrote, or if it's even the earliest he wrote of the ones that have survived to posterity.[2] In contrast to the certainty that No. 1 was written in 1759, H. C. Robbins Landon can't rule out either No. 2[3] or No. 4[4] (or both) could have been composed in 1757 or 1758.

Symphony No. 1 is scored for 2 oboes (or possibly Flute), bassoon, 2 horns, strings and continuo.[5] Like many of the earliest symphonies by Haydn and his contemporaries, it is in three movements:

1. Presto, 4/4
2. Andante in G major, 2/4
3. Presto, 3/8

The first movement opens with a Mannheim crescendo which is in contrast to the rest of the symphony, which is more Austrian in character.[6]

The first movement has "frequent passages where" the violas are "used with some ingenuity and quite separately from the bass line."[7]

Answer 3

Josef Haydn is generally considered the Father of the Symphony, so this may help lead you to the answer.

- While this is true there is no such thing as 'the' first symphony. The form has evolved almost constantly, and the 4 movements (sonata-allegro, slow, minuet, finale) of Haydn are very different to the one movement or even 15 movements symohonies of modern composers.

In the renessaince and Baroque times the word sympony and overture were used interchangeable and the symphony was often the first prelude in an opera. Bachs sons, Carl Phillip and Johann Christian both wrote many symphonies though these were in 3 movement.

Joseph Haydn solidified the form and concept of the symphony as a four movement piece described above. Eventually writing 104 symphonies himself.

However by the time of Beethovens Late 9th he had revolutionised it again and during the romantic era it was considered the most important form for musical expression. Here the symphony grew in size, emotional depth and often strayed from conventional Structure.

Answer 4

Symphony #1 in C minor Op 21. First performed 2nd April 1800

Answer 5

Beethovens Fifth

Answer 6

The prelude was Bach s first sympnony