Haydn joseph

Collection of 18th century keyboard arrangements of Haydn's works

1790 · 41127 — Paris 1790. Folio. Disbound. Engraved. <br /> <br /> Wenck arr. La Chasse Grande Simphonie de J: Haydn Arrangée pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte; Avec Accompagnement de Deux Violons et Basse à Volonté par A. H. Wenck. Prix 4₶. 4s. Hob. I/73. Keyboard part only. Paris: Chez Wenck Rue de la Michaudiere Maison de Mr. Garnier et chez les principaux Mds. de Musique. Gravé par Le Roy l'aîné Place de Cambray . 10e. Ca. 1785. Keyboard part. i title 2-15 i blank pp. With "No. 14" in contemporary black ink to head of first page of music. RISM H4478 1 copy of the keyboard part only at the Biblioteca civica musicale "A. della Corte" in Milan.<br /> <br /> Bound with: <br /> Fodor arr. Simphonie Composés Par J Haydn Arrangées pour Clavecin ou Piano forte Avec Accompagnement d'un Violon Par M Fodor. Prix 3₶. Hob. I/47. Keyboard part only. Paris: Chez le Sr. Sieber Musicien rue St. Honore entre la rue des Vieilles Etuve et celle Dorleans chez l'Apothicaire No 92 A. P. D. R. Ca. 1790. 1f. recto title verso blank i "Catalogue de Musique Vocale et Instrumentale appartenant à Mons. Sieber Rue St. Honore entre la Rue des Vielles Etuves et celle d'Orleans chez l'Apothicaire No. 92" 2-13 i blank pp. With Sieber's control signature to lower outer corner of title "3" to head of title and "No 15" to head of first page of music in contemporary manuscript. Outer margin of publisher's catalogue very slightly trimmed just touching text in several instances. RISM H4498 1 copy of the keyboard part only at the Bibliothèque nationale. <br /> <br /> Bound with:<br /> Wenck arr. Quatuor Détache de l'Œuvre XXXIIIe. de M. Haydn Arrangé pour le Piano-Forte ou Clavecin avec Accompagnement de Violon et Violoncelle à volonté par M. Wenck. Op. 33/5 Hob. III:41. Keyboard part only. Paris: Chez M. Wenck rue de la Michodiere Maison de M. Garnier. Et Chez Melle. Rivet au Palais Royal à côté du Caffé de foy. No. 55. Prix 3₶.12f. . 12e. . i title 2-11 i blank pp. With first ten measures printed to head of title. "No. 16." in contemporary manuscript to head of first page of music. Not located in RISM.<br /> <br /> Slightly worn browned and soiled; a few small tears. Haydn "began his career in the traditional patronage system of the late Austrian Baroque and ended as a 'free' artist within the burgeoning Romanticism of the early 19th century. Famous as early as the mid-1760s by the 1780s he had become the most celebrated composer of his time and from the 1790s until his death was a culture-hero throughout Europe. Since the early 19th century he has been venerated as the first of the three 'Viennese Classics' Haydn Mozart Beethoven. He excelled in every musical genre; during the first half of his career his vocal works were as famous as his instrumental ones although after his death the reception of his music focussed on the latter except for The Creation. He is familiarly known as the 'father of the symphony' and could with greater justice be thus regarded for the string quartet; no other composer approaches his combination of productivity quality and historical importance in these genres. In the 20th century he was understood primarily as an 'absolute' musician exhibiting wit originality of form motivic saturation and a 'modernist' tendency to problematize music rather than merely to compose it but earnestness depth of feeling and referential tendencies are equally important to his art." Georg Feder and James Webster in Grove Music Online<br /> <br /> Wenck was a German composer and glass harmonica player. "According to Gerber he studied the violin with Hataš and the harpsichord and composition with Georg Benda. He went to Paris with the latter in 1778 and stayed there until at least 1792 as an arranger of popular overtures and airs. On his return to Gotha he became honorary ducal secretary lived on his small estate made pianos that were much sought after and worked at perfecting the glass harmonica with which he toured as a virtuoso. In 1788 he launched a periodical music collection which was intended to appear quarterly but which seems never to have got beyond its first issue: Variétés musicales pour le piano-forte ou clavecin avec accompagnements . mêlées de chant avec paroles italiennes et françaises. In addition he published overtures and airs from favourite operas mostly for piano or harpsichord with violin accompaniment but in one case for string quartet. He also published a set of Six petites sonates op. 1 n.d. and another of Sonates et pièces op.2 four of each for keyboard with violin ad libitum as well as a Ier simphonie op.3 for the same combination. These last two were advertised in 1783; the simphonie in the style of a piano reduction of orchestral textures was to have been the first of six. In addition Gerber reported three violin trios and a bassoon concerto in manuscript. In 1798 Wenck made improvements to the metronome of Sauveur and Duclos which he described in Beschreibung eines Chronometers Magdeburg 1798 and which he sold in quantity. In 1806 he moved to Holland settling in Amsterdam where he was still living in 1810." David Fuller in Grove Music Online<br /> <br /> Fodor was a French harpsichordist of Dutch birth. "One of the foremost harpsichordists of his time in about 1780 he settled in Paris where he gave concerts and taught and composed harpsichord concertos and sonatas as well as a symphony and music for piano and strings." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online. unknown