Beautiful performance of this lively and joyful symphony. Not schoolmasterish at all, unless he was the kind of schoolmaster kids would love. Haydn is certainly underrated. Not surprising when you have to share the Classical period with two gentlemen named W A Mozart and L V Beethoven.
H. C. Robbins Landon notes that while Haydn's autograph manuscript of the symphony contains no reference to this title, the work has been known by this name since the early nineteenth century. Landon suggests that the dotted rhythm of the second movement calls to mind the wagging finger of a schoolmaster, and points out that in the catalog of his works that Haydn helped prepare in the final years of his life, there is a fragment of a lost Divertimento in D containing a similar dotted rhythm entitled "Der verliebte Schulmeister" (the schoolmaster in love). Landon goes on to propose a program for the symphony's second movement in which the sections marked semplice represent the "strict, pedantic" teacher and the dolce sections depict the same teacher overwhelmed by love.
What a joy to see a symphony of Haydn with score posted by symphony7526
Beautiful performance of this lively and joyful symphony. Not schoolmasterish at all, unless he was the kind of schoolmaster kids would love. Haydn is certainly underrated. Not surprising when you have to share the Classical period with two gentlemen named W A Mozart and L V Beethoven.
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Also, why is this called the Schoolmaster?
@@Mildau30 huh. I wonder who came up with that lol.
@@Mildau30 Oh, please!
H. C. Robbins Landon notes that while Haydn's autograph manuscript of the symphony contains no reference to this title, the work has been known by this name since the early nineteenth century. Landon suggests that the dotted rhythm of the second movement calls to mind the wagging finger of a schoolmaster, and points out that in the catalog of his works that Haydn helped prepare in the final years of his life, there is a fragment of a lost Divertimento in D containing a similar dotted rhythm entitled "Der verliebte Schulmeister" (the schoolmaster in love). Landon goes on to propose a program for the symphony's second movement in which the sections marked semplice represent the "strict, pedantic" teacher and the dolce sections depict the same teacher overwhelmed by love.