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Ιωάννης Φούλιας, “A peculiarity in Haydn’s early symphonic work:
form and possible sources of the first movement of Symphony Hob. I: 21”
[“Μια ιδιομορφία στο πρώιμο συμφωνικό έργο του Haydn: μορφή και πιθανές πηγές του πρώτου
μέρους της Συμφωνίας Hob. I: 21”], Πανεπιστήμιο Λευκωσίας, 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2009.
Among
the first 40 symphonies that Joseph Haydn wrote up to 1765, Symphony Hob. I: 21
(1764) has a slow first movement that does not resemble any other, since it is
not based on the usual in mid-18th-century ternary or binary sonata form – i.e.
sonata types 3 and 2, respectively, in J. Hepokoski’s and W. Darcy’s recent
typology (2006). As R. Landon (1955 & 1980) and especially E. Haimo (1995)
have already noticed, its structure would be better described as a fantasy with
some allusions of sonata form. In this paper, this interpretation is critically
re-examined and finally confirmed, placing this special structural case
somewhere in the middle of two other notable “capriccios” by Haydn from the
very same period: the first movement of Keyboard Trio Hob. XV: 35 (1764-1765) –
a pure (binary) sonata form! – and the Keyboard Capriccio Hob. XVII: 1 (1765) – a pure fantasy on a single theme. Yet, the
unique form of the first movement of Haydn’s Symphony Hob. I: 21 does not seem
to be absolutely novel in the “pre-classical” repertoire: some slow movements
from Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s “Württemberg” Sonatas – and particularly
Wq. 49, Nos. 1, 3 and 6 / H. 30, 33 and 36
– display several common characteristics with Haydn’s above mentioned work.
Although U. Leisinger (1994) has already put under comprehensive investigation
all possible influences of C. Ph. E. Bach on J. Haydn’s keyboard sonatas, his restriction to
keyboard music only results in the localisation of the whole topic from about
1770 onwards. On the contrary, the present attempt, focusing on similarities between C. Ph. E. Bach’s and
J. Haydn’s compositions during the 1760s, aims at the broadening of this
crucial subject matter, not only from a chronological point of view but also in
terms of an interrelation between different music genres.
© Ιωάννης Φούλιας