Concerts
Haydn2032: Il dolce far niente – Giovanni Antonini & Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini (conductor) & Il Giardino Armonico: Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 21 & 51, the ‘Symphony for Spain’, and works by G. Rossini and G. J. Werner. Haydn Reading with Clemens J. Setz (6.30 pm).
Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Il Giardino Armonico
Programme
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony No. 21 in A major, Hob. I:21 (1764)
Gregor Joseph Werner (1693–1766): From VI Fugen in Quartetten: V. [D minor] Adagio ma poco / Allegro / Adagio
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony No. 51 in B-flat major, Hob. I:51 (1773)
Interval
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868): From Sei Sonate a quattro: Sonata I in G major
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony in C major, ‘Symphony for Spain’, Hob. deest (1773/1774)
6.30 pm – Haydn Reading with Clemens J. Setz
Moderated by Alain Claude Sulzer
Admission to the Haydn Reading and Lounge is only possible with a concert ticket and advance registration at [email protected]. Places are limited to 50 (doors open at 6.15 pm).
7.30 pm – Concert
Duration: 120 minutes, including interval
The tongue-in-cheek title ‘Il dolce far niente’ goes back to a letter of complaint written in 1765 by Gregor Joseph Werner, Haydn’s predecessor as Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family. Anyone familiar with Joseph Haydn’s astonishingly varied and extensive œuvre could hardly accuse him of a lack of diligence. It was probably not ‘sweet idleness’ that occasionally led him to assemble symphonies from existing compositions, such as opera overtures or incidental music, but rather the sheer workload of running the opera at Eszterháza Palace.
One such ‘patchwork’ is a Haydn symphony discovered in Spanish sources only in 2013. Here, at least, Haydn seems to have allowed himself to take things a little easier …
There will certainly be no idleness among the musicians: alongside the ‘Spanish’ symphony, Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico turn their attention to Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 21 in A major and 51 in B-flat major. The programme is complemented by a predecessor and a successor of Haydn: the industrious Esterházy Kapellmeister Gregor Joseph Werner, whose Fugue in D minor Haydn published in 1804; and Gioachino Rossini, notorious for his supposed laziness but in fact an extraordinarily prolific opera composer. Rossini greatly admired the music of Haydn (and Mozart), and his delightful Sonata a quattro in G major bears witness to that admiration.
The literary guest at the Haydn Reading at 6.30 pm is the exceptionally prolific Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz, whose numerous literary honours include the Georg Büchner Prize and the Grand Austrian State Prize.
And during the concert interval, our famous Haydn Soup will of course be served once again.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Il Giardino Armonico
Programme
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony No. 21 in A major, Hob. I:21 (1764)
Gregor Joseph Werner (1693–1766): From VI Fugen in Quartetten: V. [D minor] Adagio ma poco / Allegro / Adagio
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony No. 51 in B-flat major, Hob. I:51 (1773)
Interval
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868): From Sei Sonate a quattro: Sonata I in G major
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony in C major, ‘Symphony for Spain’, Hob. deest (1773/1774)
6.30 pm – Haydn Reading with Clemens J. Setz
Moderated by Alain Claude Sulzer
Admission to the Haydn Reading and Lounge is only possible with a concert ticket and advance registration at [email protected]. Places are limited to 50 (doors open at 6.15 pm).
7.30 pm – Concert
Duration: 120 minutes, including interval
The tongue-in-cheek title ‘Il dolce far niente’ goes back to a letter of complaint written in 1765 by Gregor Joseph Werner, Haydn’s predecessor as Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family. Anyone familiar with Joseph Haydn’s astonishingly varied and extensive œuvre could hardly accuse him of a lack of diligence. It was probably not ‘sweet idleness’ that occasionally led him to assemble symphonies from existing compositions, such as opera overtures or incidental music, but rather the sheer workload of running the opera at Eszterháza Palace.
One such ‘patchwork’ is a Haydn symphony discovered in Spanish sources only in 2013. Here, at least, Haydn seems to have allowed himself to take things a little easier …
There will certainly be no idleness among the musicians: alongside the ‘Spanish’ symphony, Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico turn their attention to Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 21 in A major and 51 in B-flat major. The programme is complemented by a predecessor and a successor of Haydn: the industrious Esterházy Kapellmeister Gregor Joseph Werner, whose Fugue in D minor Haydn published in 1804; and Gioachino Rossini, notorious for his supposed laziness but in fact an extraordinarily prolific opera composer. Rossini greatly admired the music of Haydn (and Mozart), and his delightful Sonata a quattro in G major bears witness to that admiration.
The literary guest at the Haydn Reading at 6.30 pm is the exceptionally prolific Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz, whose numerous literary honours include the Georg Büchner Prize and the Grand Austrian State Prize.
And during the concert interval, our famous Haydn Soup will of course be served once again.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.