Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Allegro Vivace HAYDN...
When the Pierian began, every shadow of gloom had vanished. Their playing was a very pleasant surprise. The two pieces most worthy of mention were the overture to "Belisario" and Haydn's Third Symphony. The "Belisario" was given with a smoothness and a repose that many a more pretentious orchestra would do well to emulate; qualities certainly not to be expected of amateurs. In the Haydn Symphony both the vigor of the attack and the delicacy of the shading were particularly noticeable. The different parts were surprisingly clear; there was no scrabbling, and the rhythmical contrast was well brought...
...seems strange that so few have taken advantage of the opportunity for musical culture offered in Music 5. The course is a series of lectures by Professor Paine, on the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their successors, - their development of the Sonata and Symphony. It is not everywhere nor every day that one can listen to the analysis and criticism and afterwards to the interpretation of a minuet of Mozart or a scherzo of Beethoven by one who himself ranks high as a critic and a composer. Mr. Paine is willing that all those not regularly members...
...left with Golden Hair; and she played to me. It was the most severe classical music, - Bach and Mozart, Handel and Haydn. "No," said she, "my father does not allow me to play anything of Beethoven's or Mendelssohn's; but you see I have all the classics...
...programme contained, besides the pieces already mentioned, the overture to Figaro's Hoehzeit, by Mozart; Lied ohne Worte, No. 18, by Mendelssohn; Symphonie II. of Haydn; and the Vogesen Grand March of Zikoff, given by the Pierian; Hunter's Joy, by Astholz; Galopp, by Bishoff; Spring Night, by Fischer; and Weimar's People's Song, by Liszt, given by the Glee Club...