[Hob. XXI:3]. Die Jahreszeiten nach Thomson . Partitur . Originalausgabe. [Full score]. [Part I only]

HAYDN, Joseph 1732-1809

Edité par Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig, 1802

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Folio. Contemporary full dark brown suede with tooling in black to outer edges of boards. 1f. (recto title with elaborate vignette engraved by W. Böhm after G.V. Kiminger incorporating allegories of the seasons floating on a bed of clouds with lyre and six-pointed stars, verso blank), 1f. (recto secondary title "Erste Abtheilung," verso "Personen"), 251, [i] (blank). Typeset throughout. With occasional indications of instrumentation in pencil. R. Cocks & Co. handstamp to foot of secondary title. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped, with minor loss to lower outer corner of upper board and spine; upper partially detached. Some wear, soiling, staining, foxing, and browning; occasional minor loss to blank lower margins; worming to blank inner margin of first five leaves. First Edition, issue with parallel text in German and English. Hoboken Katalog Vol. 9, 1411. Hirsch IV 796. RISM H2542. One of Haydn's two masterful oratorios, this secular work was written shortly after The Creation (1798) to a libretto by Baron Gottfried von Swieten (1733-1803) after the eponymous poem by James Thomson (1700-1748) published in 1730. The work was first performed on 24 April 1801 in a private première at the Schwarzenberg Palace in Vienna; the first public production took place on 29 May 1801. "Although the initial reception of The Seasons was favourable Haydn wrote to Clementi that it had enjoyed unanimous approval and that many prefer it to The Creation, because of its greater variety critical opinion soon became mixed, owing in part to its perceived lower subject, in part to a growing aesthetic resistance to its many pictorialisms. Haydn himself contributed to both strands of criticism: he supposedly said to Francis II, In The Creation angels speak and tell of God, but in The Seasons only Simon speaks (Dies); and he indiscreetly criticized Swieten s croaking frogs ( Frenchified trash ) and the absurdity of a choral hymn to toil (Fleiss). Nonetheless he maintained that it would join The Creation in assuring his lasting fame. For the publication he took the path of lesser resistance, selling the rights to Breitkopf & Härtel. . Notwithstanding its less exalted subject, The Seasons is compositionally more virtuoso than The Creation and offers greater variety of tone: Haydn s pastoral is one of the final glories of a tradition that is more than high enough." Georg Feder and James Webster in Grove Music Online The music is "of wonderful freshness and unfailing originality." TNG Vol. 8, p. 347.

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• Titre: [Hob. XXI:3]. Die Jahreszeiten nach Thomson . Partitur . Originalausgabe. [Full score]. [Part I only]
• Éditeur: Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig
• Date de parution: 1802
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
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