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    THE STORY BEHIND: Haydn's Violin Concerto in C major

    Title:Violin Concerto in C major, Hob.Vlla:1

    Composer:Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
    Last time performed by the Rhode Island Philharmonic:This is a RI Philharmonic Orchestra premiere. In addition to a solo violin, this piece is scored for harpsichord and strings.

    The Story:Haydn’s violin concerti are immediately recognizable for their sprightly use of the violin’s high register, chains of dotted rhythms, virtuosic double stops, and ornamental figuration. They were written during the 1760s to showcase the considerable talents of violinist Luigi Tomasini who, after building an impressive reputation in Italy, had just moved to Hungary to become the concertmaster of Haydn’s beloved Esterházy orchestra. Tomasini performed all four of them with considerable panache, much to the delight of the royal Austro-Hungarian court. But the manuscripts curiously disappeared into a publisher’s archive shortly after

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    Joseph Haydn:
    Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major

    Orchestra: 2 oboes, 2 horns and strings

    Program Notes by Martin Pearlman

    Haydn listed a cello concerto in C major in his thematic catalogue of his own works, but the piece was thought to be lost, until a set of manuscript parts was found in 1961 in a collection in Prague.  Since then, it has become a popular concerto with cellists, due to its virtuosic writing for the instrument and its bright, youthful character.  It is an early work from the first years of Haydn's employment with Prince Esterházy, that is, from the early 1760's.  Because the writing is similar to the significant cello solos in some of Haydn's symphonies from that time, particularly symphonies nos. 6-8, it is thought probably to have been written for Joseph Weigl, a virtuoso cellist in the prince's orchestra at the time and a close friend of Haydn.  The orchestration calls for two oboes, two horns and strings, and it would presuma

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    Cello Concerto No. 1 (Haydn)

    Musical composition bygd Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto

    Haydn c. 1770

    KeyC major
    CatalogueHob. VIIb/1
    Composedc. 1765
    Movements3

    The Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb/1, bygd Joseph Haydn was composed around 1761-65 for longtime friend namn Franz Weigl, then the principal cellist of Prince Nicolaus's Esterházy Orchestra.[1]

    The work was presumed lost until 1961, when musicologist Oldřich Pulkert discovered a kopia of the score at the Prague National Museum.[1] Though some doubts have been raised about the authenticity of the work, most experts believe that Haydn did compose this concerto.

    Background

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    Although the full work was discovered in 1961, Haydn had written the beginning of the principal theme of the first movement in his draft catalogue of 1765.[2][3] This early work, nearly contemporaneous with symphonies 6, 7 and 8 and predating his D major c