Joseph Haydn - Canons Nos. 1-9 from XXVIIb (c.1898)
Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio. His contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.
He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a tutor of Beethoven, and the older brother of composer Michael Haydn.
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9 Canons from Gruppe XXVIIb (c.1898)
1. "Hilar an Narziß" (0:00)
lyrics: Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708-1754)
2. "Auf einen adeligen Dummkopf" (1:04)
lyrics: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
3. "Der Schuster bleib bei seinem Leist" (2:50)
lyrics: Karl von Eckartshausen (1752-1803)
4. "Herr von Gänsewitz zu seinem Kammerdiener" (3:11)
lyrics: Gottfried August Bürger (1747-1794)
5. "An den Marull" (3:55)
lyrics: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
6. "Die Mutter an ihr Kind in der Wiege" (8:08)
lyrics: unknown
7. "Der Menschenfreund (12:17)
lyrics: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769)
8. "Gottes Macht und Vorsehung" (15:27)
lyrics: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769)
9. "An Dorilis" (16:32)
lyrics: Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (1738–1809)
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Joseph Haydn composed a large body of unaccompanied canons for 2–8 voices, written in German and Latin, many with humorous or literary subjects, originally intended for private entertainment and later published in 1810 by Breitkopf & Härtel. Haydn wrote 56 unaccompanied canons in total, including 10 “Ten Commandments” canons from his London years (1791–1794) and 46 secular canons.