Ch 29 listening quiz: haydn: string quartet in e-flat major, op. 33, no. 2 (joke), iv lg 1912/24/2023 The sound goes into the high register for a change in sound before returning to the stamping dance at the end. The contrasting Trio, full of glissandos in the violins, couldn’t be more of a contrast. It’s almost like a folk-dance in its writing, with the peasant stamping we find in other depictions of the countryside. This is followed not by the expected Minuet / Trio but that new-fangled Scherzo, later taken up so enthusiastically by Beethoven. Allegro moderato (Emerson String Quartet) It’s simple and approachable and Haydn’s clarity in layout spins out the various motifs he’s derived from his themes. The Quartet starts with a charming melody that sounds almost popular. In the Joke Quartet, like all good jokes, you have to wait until the end to hear the humour. In the Farewell symphony, he had each player extinguish his stand candle and leave the stage as they finished playing to get the message to their patron that they wanted to go back to town to their families. And yet, while giving him this comfortable title, we always have to recognize his sense of humour in what he wrote. Portrait of Joseph Haydn by Thomas Hardy, 1791Īs the ‘Father of the String Quartet,’ Haydn did a great deal to standardize the quartet form that we love so well.
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