Plus, the annual summer Token Creek Chamber Music Festival often likes to explore Haydn’s piano trios, although I don’t yet know this summer’s programs. The string quartets and piano trios came from the Pro Arte Quartet (below top), plus the Hunt Quartet (below middle) and the Perlman Trio (below bottom, seen with a guest pianist and guest cellist) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music as well as from chamber musicians in the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (WYSO). I also heard one of his two cello concertos and a trumpet concerto. Well, this past season I heard many more of Haydn’s string quartets and piano trios than usual. And this is even despite the fact that he was a teacher or mentor to all of them.Īnd on what does The Ear base his hunch about a Haydn revival? Haydn was more or less the father of the symphony, as we know it the string quartet as we know it the piano trio as we know it and the piano sonata as we know it.īut curiously, Haydn has never received the same intense attention that his more famous colleagues such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, have enjoyed. Robbins Landon - was one of the most inventive and creative, the most prolific and influential composers of all time. The repertoire usually runs: Lots of Mozart, lots of Beethoven, some Schubert and far less Haydn.Īlmost all classical musicians, historical and contemporary, concede that “Papa” Haydn -– a more complex personality than it would appear at first, especially if you read the authoritative biographies and essays by H.C. What I hear tells me this: We are on the verge of a major rediscovery and revival of the works of Franz Joseph Haydn, who too often seems little more than a token inclusion or an afterthought in so much classical programming. The evidence just keeps on mounting, at least to The Ear’s ears. Classical music: A major and long overdue revival of Franz Joseph Haydn seems at hand –- and The Ear applauds it.
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