HAYDN, Joseph 1732-1809

[Hob. I:94]. The Surprise ... Celebrated Symphony, Composed for & Performed at Mr. Salomon's And the Opera Concerts, Newly Adapted for the Piano Forte With Accompaniments for a Flute, Violin & Violoncello Ad Lib[itu]m by Muzio Clementi No. 3 Price 4s. [Piano part only]

London: Clementi, Banger, Collard, Davis & Collard, [WM 1811].

Folio. Disbound. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (blank), 2-16 pp.

Occasional fingerings in pencil.

Slightly browned; minor soiling to blank lower outer margins.

This arrangement not in HWV. OCLC 960142000, 1179430400, 1314102877.

Skeletal arrangements of larger-scale works, built around the upper- and lowermost parts of a score, were frequently created by instrumentalists in the two centuries preceding this publication. Examples include orchestration-flexible harpsichord suites of Dieupart and Le Roux, the arrangements of solos and trios by Corelli et al. published by Etienne Roger for harpsichord plus ad libitum violin and cello, and the numerous transcriptions of Lully orchestral dances. This flexibility of ad libitum arrangement continued to be practiced in the early 19th century and beyond.

"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. ... In no. 94 the famous outburst in the Andante is actually the least remarkable ‘surprise’; the opening Vivace reaches new heights of tonal wit and expansive brilliance, and the concluding sonata-rondo masterfully combines large scale (sonata-rondo form), rhythmic vitality, playful surprise, and underlying cogency of argument." James Webster in Grove Music Online.

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