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HAYDN'S FORGOTTEN QUARTETS: THREE OF THE ‘PARIS’ SYMPHONIES ARRANGED FOR STRING QUARTET

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2011

DAVID WYN JONES
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Abstract

In 1787 Artaria, Haydn's publisher in Vienna, issued three versions of The Seven Last Words: the original orchestral version, a quartet arrangement prepared by the composer and a keyboard arrangement sanctioned by him. A year later, in September 1788, Artaria issued three of the recent ‘Paris’ Symphonies, Nos 84, 85 and 86, in an arrangement for quartet. While the quartet version of The Seven Last Words has always been accepted as part of the canon, the three quartet arrangements of the symphonies have been ignored. Sympathetic consideration of a range of evidence, including the bibliographical, historical and text-critical, suggests that Haydn may have been the author of these three quartets.

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Eighteenth-Century Music , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , September 2011 , pp. 287 - 305
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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32 The plates of the orchestral version carry the number 114; when these were taken over unaltered, 113 was added alongside 114, indicating that they could be used to print the orchestral and the quartet versions; new plates were given the number 113, indicating that they were to be used for the quartet version only. Exemplar of Artaria print studied: GB Lbl.

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37 No. 84: CH Bps; a facsimile is to be found in the Hoboken Photogramm Archiv in A Wn. Only the slow introduction of No. 85 survives: D Bsb; No. 86: F Pn.

38 This alternation is not included in the list of corrections to the autograph score given in JHW, 1/13/2, 175.

39 These changes to the autograph score of the symphony are noted in JHW, 1/13/2, 175.

40 JHW does not document variant readings in the Artaria parts of the symphony. Exemplar of Artaria print studied: A Wst.

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