HAYDN, Joseph 1732-1809

[Hob. I:104]. Sinfonie ... Partition No. 2 ... Pr. 16 gr. [Full score]

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 390], [1807].

Folio. Sewn. Plain dark ivory contemporary wrappers with titling in contemporary manuscript to upper. [i] (title with two-bar incipit), 21, [i] (blank) pp.

Occasional annotations in faint pink pencil, including dynamics.

Handstamp "J Hill No. 7 Grove Place Brompton" and with "Frank E. Bastick from F. J. Salwey 5/1/16" in contemporary manuscript to head of upper wrapper.

Wrappers quite worn, soiled, and with edge tears and chips; detached. Some internal wear, browning, soiling, and small stains.

Second edition. Coll.Sy.7a. Hoboken Collection Vol. 6, 342. RISM H3265 and HH3265 (no copies in the U.S.). Robbins Landon: The Symphonies of Joseph Haydn, p. 776 (13). OCLC 17713865 (2 copies, both at Yale).

The last of Haydn's "London" symphonies.

"Haydn’s London symphonies (nos. 93–104) crown his career as a symphonic composer. Not only do they outdo the Paris symphonies stylistically, but he produced them in person for rapturous audiences; this interaction stimulated him to ever bolder and more original conceptions. ... No. 104 begins with a massive dotted motif on the 5th D–A, which some commentators describe as dominating the entire symphony; the first movement is one of Haydn’s freest and the finale has greater relative weight than that in any other of the London symphonies." James Webster in Grove Music Online.

Item #40146

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