ExclusiveHaydn: Divertimento in C major, Hob. XVI:1 - II. Andante

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Franz Joseph Haydn: Divertimento in C major, Hob. XVI:1 - II. Andante. This beautiful piece was preserved by European Archive. It has creative commons license (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

The Sonata in C major is the first composed by Joseph Haydn, one of the leading composers contributing to the development of the Sonata Form. His Sonatas influenced musical history significantly.

The Haydn Piano Sonata in C major is a piece is in three Movements; ‘Allegro’, ‘Andante’ ‘Minuet-Trio’. The three-movement Sonata was prevalent in that period, before the adaptation of the four-movement in the Romantic period.

The layout of the Movements in the Haydn Piano Sonata in C major is very standard. All the composers have unanimously used the ‘Allegro’ to begin the Sonata. The Second Movement is usually slow, as in this piece, an ‘Andante’, which means “at a walking speed”. The ‘Menuet-Trio’ is a usual finale for Haydn as seen in his next Sonatas (e.g. HOB XVI: 2, 3, 4, 11 and others)

All three Movements are in C major. A shared tonic key can be traced from the Baroque Suite, which was customary to have all the Movements in the same key.

During the Classical period, this tendency changed slowly towards different keys through the movements in a Sonata. This tendency can reveal how Haydn was still composing upon the Baroque style.
Source: piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk

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