Richard also deserves a nickname, "the greatest fan of Haydn on the Earth"

Bookmarking funny pictures: 16:48 frog hops along to the music - I especially like how the frog magically becomes enlarged at the end of the descending scale 17:22 toast + Mr. Potato Head 21:05 Popeye the Sailor Man 22:22 24:24 Count von Count 25:28 mission accomplished 25:45 Quentin Tarantino 27:00 Donkey from Shrek 27:51 emperor penguin 28:52 Grand Master Richard Atkinson of the United Grand Lodge of Haydn Fanatics Also, your excellent singing (12:01), whistling (21:20), and braying (27:06) :D

The "How do you do?" motif is also used in symphony no. 89's first movement

Aaaaaaah another big Haydn video. Thank you, thank you Richard! Fun fact, I, living in Germany, can assure that most germans don't know their anthem was written by an austrian for Austria, and not only that, some of the words of the german text don't really fit the rhythm of the melody, which leads most germans to think that the melody starts on the one: "Einigkeit"' and "Vaterland", just in the first sentence, have their natural accents on the third quarters of their respective measures...

I was having a stressful day, and your video was exactly the break I needed. You should see the smile I have now, I am feeling giddy, all thanks to Haydn, and your insightful (and witty) analysis!

There's a passage in the development section of the Quinten that reminds me of the Bach double violin concerto!

Many thanks for sharing this 🙏🏻 Lovely and hilarious as always! Haydn is one of my favorite composer (surprisingly). The joy, creativity and humor are so perfectly blended in his music ❤

39:54 if I don't know this is Haydn, I would say this is Schubert :D

Happy Haydn’s birthsday!

This is fantastic! I'd love to see more like this where you take a segment of a composer's output and review it like this.

Thanks for the upload. I am also a big Haydn fan. Love his symphonies and quartets and also his piano trios. I am now trying to play his double variations in F moll. A mysterious and beautiful piece. I really appreciate your videos.

I knew about some musical cryptograms in pieces by famous composers like the BACH motif in Die Kunst der Fuge, but I did not know about the Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser cryptogram in the Emperor Quartet by Haydn.

This video is really fun, thanks for all the analysis in your videos!

Always, a most enjoyable time well spent. Thank you, Richard!❤❤❤

25:05 I noticed that the Wikipedia article on Haydn Op. 76 quartets now talk about the No. 1 Quartet being nicknamed the "Jack-in-the-box" Quartet.

What a wonderful survey of Haydn's string quartets!

28:32 The inspiration from God save the King is pretty evident from the use of the secondary dominant in both.

Re the "Lark": Lark songs are pretty famous for being 'musical' in some ways. There are many EuroAsian lark species that Hayden could have heard (even if only caged birds) that might have inspired the passage you highlighted. In North America, it's often the wood thrush that scores highest among birdsong-that-sounds-like-music internet posts. But maybe my favorite birdsong these days comes from certain Carolina wrens. It isn't really musical, but it is certainly poetic: Chirpity chirpity, chirpity chirpity Chirpity chirpity, chirpity chirpity Chirpity chirpity, chirpity chirpity Chirpity, Chirpity, Chirp!

Amazing video! Thank you for all your efforts!

30:29 I never knew about this musical cryptogram, that's so cool! I also really like the endings of that quartet's mvmt. 2 (29:16) and "How Do You Do" mvmt. 1 (13:20)

This is amazing

Marvelous, absolutely marvelous… you both! 🌹🌹

FYI the "Apponyi quartet" ensemble was/is "only" the first chairs of the Freiburger Barockorchester. So the musicians are still around and active but for whatever reason they only made this one Haydn recording (and another with Boccherini quartets, not sure if any more). Has someone already edited wikipedia on op.76 #5 after this video...?

One of your most charming vids, Richard. Oink! Moo! Haha. Haydn would have been delighted. I wonder about the popularity of Zaide had it been finished. "Ruhe sanft" is justly popular but "Tiger!" is equally great. Another g-minor Mozart explosion in a larger context similar to the Sonata K. 379 -- hardly known.

3/8 is a horse’s canter. Hence the “Hunt” label. Dedications to the aristocracy was generally done after the fact in order to gain either influence or $$$. Mostly they weren’t commissioned by the aristocracy, out of a few select Kappelmeisters and a few pet projects.

great video

Another erudite, enlightening, educational, enjoyable, entertaining, and exceedingly excellent presentation! Thank you for all the time and effort you expended in creating this masterclass on the nicknamed Haydn string quartets. I understand why you paid comparatively short shrift to Op. 1, 2, and 3, but I think they merit at least a brief list of "Fun Facts" for the benefits of your audience (I know you are already aware of all of them...) 1. Late in life, when given a list of early works attributed to him for confirmation that he wrote them, Haydn "verified" the Op. 3 works as his own. However, though the details are a bit too long to give here, in this case old age and an unreliable memory apparently made the "Father of the String Quartet" misidentify them as his musical children. Research from the early 1960s onward has now attributed at least some if not all of the six works of Op. 3 to one Roman Hofstetter, a contemporary composer whose only current claim to fame is being their proposed creator. Two members of Op. 3 have nicknames. Op. 3, No. 3 in G Major is the "Bagpipe" quartet, named after the sound of its minuet. Op. 3, No. 5 in F Major is the famous "Serenade" quartet, so designated from its beautiful second movement, and still often attributed to Haydn in recordings whether he actually wrote it or not. 2. The "string quartets" of Op. 1 and Op. 2 are more commonly referred to these days as "quartet-divertimenti." As you note, those earliest (exact dates of their creation are uncertain, but possibly as far back as 1757-1761 or even before that) of his compositions for two violins, viola, and cello differ from those of Op. 9 onwards in multiple ways. In fact, Haydn himself considered the six works of Op. 9 to be the first containing "real" string quartets in the way he eventually understood/created the form. 3. One peculiarity of the ten quartet-divertimenti--Op. 1, Nos. 1-4 and 6; Op. 2, Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 6, and the "Op. 0" (a lone work not included in those other two groups)--is that they are all in five movements, rather than the four that Haydn used consistently in all later works (barring the incomplete Op. 103). The fast--minuet 1--slow--minuet 2--fast pattern of movements seen in eight of those ten works parallels a common pattern used for divertimenti at that time. That latter five-movement form was originally seen even in a much later work by Mozart, his Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525, one of whose minuets has apparently been lost. (BTW, that piece has a little, dark nickname of its own...) 3. Also unlike Haydn's Op. 9 and beyond, the quartet-divertimenti were not created by him to form an official group of works. Rather, they were individual pieces compiled by outside publishers without Haydn's input or consent. Those shady dealings also meant stripping an early three-movement Haydn symphony, the unnumbered Hob. I:107, of its wind parts to make it "Op. 1, No. 5," as well as removing the horn parts from two of his early divertimenti/cassations to create "Op. 2, Nos. 3 and 5." 4. Finally, while none of those ten early quartet-divertimenti would ever be considered Great Works of Western Music, they are all delightful to listen to and appreciate in their own individual ways, even though all but one lacks a nickname. More importantly, they contain musical seeds of Haydn's compositional genius that would blossom into a kaleidoscopic series of masterworks beginning roughly a decade later as he, for all practical purposes, invented what became the quintessential chamber music form.

Will you ever do an analysis on Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony? I have always waited for that video

Another "Hunt" piece that leaves me unconvinced about whether the name really fits, Beethoven's 18th piano sonata in Eb, the so called "Hunt" Sonata. I mean, I assume it's the ending 6/8 Presto that gave it the nickname, but is it really like a hunt? I don't know, I've heard some people say that the Presto of the Beethoven sonata is more of a tarantella than anything else.

Great video Richard! I would like to propose a nickname for op 20. No 2. In the First movement, when the main theme arrives in minor in the development section, it is as if John Williams copied it straight from this moment. Therefore, I would like to call it “The Force”, after John Williams The Force Theme, or Skywalker Theme!

I hope when you got to Salzburg you ate at this place, which claims to have served Mozart, among others: St. Peter Stiftskulinarium is Salzburg, Austria claims that title, having served food since AD 803, making it the oldest restaurant in Europe, and by most measures, in the entire world. I hope it was good.

Not sure about anyone else but I have the slightest inkling that Richard Atkinson may enjoy Haydn's music, somewhat.

Yes! The “Archaeopteryx” quartet, let’s make it happen people. But which one should it be?

Another great video Richard!...can't wait for the upcoming deep dives into more of these excellent Haydn quartets, especially the D minor, one of my personal favorites...I have also always wondered why Beethoven seems to get sole credit for the Scherzo replacing the Minuet in multi-movement works. Perhaps because he used it more than Haydn, but he certainly didn't come up with the idea! Did Haydn use the Scherzo designation for any of his Symphonic movements??? It seems to me that Beethoven took more from Haydn's quartets than his symphonies in general, would you agree?

Great video as always, I have a question though, which do you like more, the opus 20 or the opus 33 quartets?

Do you have any preferences towards the labels of the recordings you use in your videos in terms of avoiding copyright? I am planning to make an analysis video in your style of Puccini's "La Boheme" but I am scared of putting several hours into a single video just so it will get taken down 2 days later... (I love your channel btw)

The Quinten motive reminds me of a part in the first movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony

Papa Haydn ❤

I’ll call the Opus 103 quartet the “Farewell Quartet” for it being the last one.

Here is a lesser known fact: the famous first musical sentence of Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser is inspired by a very similar Crotian folk tune: "Ustal sam se v rano jutro" (I got up early in the morning), which is still quite popular among the Croatian minority in Burgenland (which they call Gradišće) around the town of Eisenstadt (Željezno) where Haydn spent a lot of time, since it was the Esterházy land. When I visited Haydn's tomb, I noticed a lot of people there spoke in a very peculiar, old-fashioned, Croatian dialect. Nowadays, the folk tune has mutated to be even more similar to the anthem and it is almost always performed with the anthem's exact melody, even though the original was slightly less ornamented, had the first phrase repeat a third above, and didn't contain the Prinner melody (la sol fa mi), so typical of Haydn's style (instead it was: sol fa sol mi): do . re mi re fa mi re do, mi . fa sol sol la sol fa mi, sol sol fa sol mi re Here is the performance of the original version of the tune (which inspired Haydn): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fK9mobhksuCypn0.html

This is a stupid question I’m sure, but you seem to really really like counterpoint. What is it you like so much about it, and do you like any music without counterpoint?

I think there are 2 main reasons behind Beethoven getting the credit for placing the Scherzo in sonata-type pieces like string quartets. First reason is because most people in the general classical music listening public, in my experience know very little about Haydn and have only heard 1, maybe 2 pieces if any of his. Like the Surprise Symphony + maybe one of his concertos or piano sonatas. So they are very unlikely to know about any Scherzos Haydn wrote. And the second reason is because Beethoven is seen as the rule breaker of the Classical era trifecta. Breaking counterpoint rules like no parallel octaves in fugues like his Grosse Fuge or the Hammerklavier finale, leaving the Minuet behind, writing the Scherzo in sonata form rather than Scherzo and Trio form(Ninth Symphony), hybridizing Theme and Variations with the Rondo(Seventh Symphony second movement), synthesizing sonata form and the fugue(Op. 111 Sonata), I could go on, but you get the point. That said, Haydn was a rule bender and breaker long before Beethoven. I mean, in one of his major key multi-movement works, don't remember which one, he has a slow movement in the key of the Neapolitan! That would be like a Db major slow movement in a C major sonata. The Neapolitan wouldn't show up as the key of a slow movement of a sonata-type piece again(at least among well known composers) until Bruckner, who did it twice in a major key and 6 times in a minor key! That's quite the disparity from mid-Classical era to late Romantic to be seeing the Neapolitan key relation in a sonata structure in both composers.

Which would you say are (nearly objectively) Shostakovich greatest symphonies?

Thank you - The Thoughtful Entertainer strikes again - but, please - where is ”The Call for Action”?

Haydn!

You're a chad!

As a person with perfect pitch, I don't really like it when you play the quartets at baroque pitch.