Symphony No. 65 in A major, Hoboken I/65, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn which was composed by 1778.
Movements
editThe symphony is scored for two oboes, two horns and strings. There are four movements:
The first movement starts with three declamatory chords at intervals of a rising fourth and a falling minor second followed by a lyrical answer which constitutes the first theme group. This section does not appear in the recapitulation causing some scholars to question if this movement is in sonata form as its form is closer to that of an Italian overture.[1]
Scholars have theorized that the eccentric slow movement may have been conceived as incidental music to a play.[2] Musicologist Elaine Sisman suggested that it may have been Shakespeare's Hamlet.[3] The minuet is not dance music, as it is rhythmically complex. Haydn switches frequently between 3
4 and 4
4 meter. The minor-key trio also features metric complexity in the form of hemiolas.[1] The finale is a hunting piece, similar to the finale to the 73rd symphony.[2]
Notes
edit- ^ a b A. Peter Brown, The Symphonic Repertoire (Volume 2) (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 2002) (ISBN 025333487X), pp. 143–145.
- ^ a b H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works, 5 vols. (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976– ) v. 2: "Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766–1790", [page needed]
- ^ Simon McVeigh, "Symphony", in Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn, edited by David Wyn Jones, [page needed]–414 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), mentions Sisman's speculation on pp. 392–93. ISBN 0-19-866216-5.
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