The English libretto (sung here, and also appearing in subtitles) has a few problems, arising from the first libretto being written in German by Baron Gottfried van Swietan but being based on the English St James Bible. It was then translatedbackinto English for the final 1800 bilingual publi...
The result was Die Schöpfung (‘The Creation’), with a text by Baron van Swieten based on English sources, first performed in Vienna in 1798. Die Jahreszeiten (‘The Seasons’), with a text by Baron van Swieten based on James Thomson, was first performed in 1801. Haydn’s earlier ...
contained both the German and the English, making it the first major work ever printed with a bi-lingual text. Both languages have their advantages and disadvantages. As scholar Nicholas Temperly has pointed out, some of the descriptions in the English libretto are "often inept or even bizarre...
10String Quartet No. 29 in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5, Hob.III:41, "How do you do?": IV. Finale: Allegretto (version for piano)02:41 12 Menuets, Hob.IX:3 (version for piano) 1112 Menuets, Hob.IX:3 (version for piano)14:27...
stricken Haydn's compositions comprize almost every form of vocal and instrumental music. Of his dramatic works the operas are of infinitely less importance than The Creation and The Seasons. In the former there are points of grand and truly epical conception, surpassed by few masters except ...
Haydn enlisted Baron Gottfried van Swieten to write the libretto for this oratorio, after a successful collaboration on The Creation previously. It was by and large a triumph, although Haydn took objection to one passage in particular. Annotating a piano reduction of the orchestral music, Haydn ...
Four years later the violinistimpresario Johann Peter Salomon handed him an anonymous English libretto on the theme of the Creation, allegedly compiled for Handel half a century earlier. Haydn found the text 'well chosen', and, once back in Vienna, asked the director of the Imperial Library ...
While Haydn was in London, his friend Salomon gave him a libretto that later became The Creation. The text was originally intended for Handel, but remained unused. Haydn had the text translated into German, began composing for it in 1796, and finished it in 1798, making it his first sacred...
The result was Die Schöpfung (‘The Creation’), with a text by Baron van Swieten based on English sources, first performed in Vienna in 1798. Die Jahreszeiten (‘The Seasons’), with a text by Baron van Swieten based on James Thomson, was first performed in 1801. Haydn’s earlier ...
The result was Die Schöpfung (‘The Creation’), with a text by Baron van Swieten based on English sources, first performed in Vienna in 1798. Die Jahreszeiten (‘The Seasons’), with a text by Baron van Swieten based on James Thomson, was first performed in 1801. Haydn’s earlier ...