ExclusiveHaydn: Piano Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI:23 - II. Adagio

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI:23 - II. Adagio. This beautiful piece was played by Ivan Ilic. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED, Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Haydn's biographer Dies reported him as saying in 1806:

"I must have something to do—usually musical ideas are pursuing me, to the point of torture, I cannot escape them, they stand like walls before me. If it's an allegro that pursues me, my pulse keeps beating faster, I can get no sleep. If it's an adagio, then I notice my pulse beating slowly. My imagination plays on me as if I were a clavier." Haydn smiled, the blood rushed to his face, and he said "I am really just a living clavier."

Can you imagine what he was feeling when he wrote this piece? I wonder if he liked being paired with the softly flowing water in the video.

The video was shot by Simone Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.





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