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Symphony No. 39 (Michael Haydn)

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675: 164: 128: 247:, of a C major symphony of Michael's, dated 19 February 1788. Here no doubt is possible: Ex. 8 And if this should still be thought an accident, there is the rhythmic motive, which appears at first in the horns: Ex. 9 or a counter-motive to the principal theme: Ex. 10 —further, the play of syncopation, the introduction of groups of rapid eighth-notes; the juxtaposition of all these motives." 699: 711: 243:, translated to English by Arthur Mendel & Nathan Broder. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1945): 127 - 128. "And it is quite certain that we would not have possessed the finale of the 'Jupiter' Symphony in its particular form, in its contrapuntal texture, had it not been for the finale, entitled 142:
changes in store for the players: in the second movement, the first horn switches to horn in E while the second player switches to horn in D, "a clever use ... to increase the range of notes available on instruments without valves." Robbins Landon also points out that in the Andante of this symphony
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2 (2003): 183. "Mozart's knowledge of another C major Symphony of Michael Haydn, P.31/MH 478, finished on 19 February 1788, is more open to question. The sources do not indicate a Viennese distribution, though this does not rule out Mozart's access to the work through his sister Nannerl. In any
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for most of the work even though the cellos occasionally are independent of the bassoons and basses in the first movement. Close to the beginning of the third movement it becomes necessary to split the cellos and basses on to different staves as the cellos switch to
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The first movement is notable for its use of horns in G instead of the usual horns in C (compare Haydn's earlier C major symphonies and those of his brother Joseph), so that the horns can participate in the
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ranks among the convinced, because of comparisons of the music. As in the first movement, in the last movement the two horns again begin in G and switch to in C for the recapitulation.
189:, Michael Haydn considered continuo to be essential even for his most fully instrumented works. Yet only one recording of Symphony No. 39 uses harpsichord continuo, Pál Németh with 193:; the bass line for the figured bass realization is the bassoons' and not the celli's. Neither Johannes Goritzki nor Hans-Peter Frank have continuo in their recordings. 158:
which Mozart certainly studied. Unlike the "Jupiter" Symphony, in this symphony the fugal theme is at its first instance accompanied by its usual countersubject:
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Robbins Landon speculates that Mozart also studied Haydn's No. 39 before writing his No. 41, since he "often requested his father
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The last movement is a vigorous fugato, something else this work has in common with Mozart's Symphony No. 41 and Haydn's own
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event, three distinctive traits of this finale are replicated in K.551: 1) the dotted note fanfares, 2) a moment of
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to send him the latest fugue that Haydn had written." (Robbins Landon, 1967) Whether Mozart knew Haydn's later
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H. C. Robbins Landon, Foreword to score of Sinfonia in C, Perger 31 Vienna: Doblinger K. G. (1967)
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C. Sherman, Foreword to score of Sinfonia in F, Perger 30 Vienna: Doblinger K. G. (1988)
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Johann Michael Haydn (1737 - 1806), a chronological thematic catalogue of his works
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Peter Brown, "Eighteenth-Century Traditions and Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony K.551"
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and double the violas, leaving the bass to the bassoons and basses.
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symphony has not been proven conclusively by historical means, but
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symphony he wrote, the sixth of his final set of six symphonies.
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of Haydn's uses the low C of the second trumpet, something
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for Verlag Doblinger has the cellos and basses on the same
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Index

Michael Haydn
Salzburg
C major
oboes
bassoons
horns
trumpets
timpani
strings
H. C. Robbins Landon
staff
tenor clef
Allegro con spirit
Andante
G major
Fugato
Molto vivace
harmonization
triadic
theme
beat
syncopation

recapitulation
crook
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major
Symphony No. 28 in C major

Leopold

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