Symphony No. 48 (Haydn)

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Maria Theresa of Austria, for whom the 48th Symphony is nicknamed

The Symphony No. 48 in C major (Hoboken I/48) is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. The work has the nickname Maria Theresia as it was thought to have been composed for a visit by the Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresa of Austria.

1 Date of composition and scoring
2 Movements
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Date of composition and scoring

The symphony was composed between 1768 and 1770. It is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns (one in C alto, the other in F), and strings. Parts for two trumpets and timpani were added later but scholars are not sure whether or not these really are by Haydn.^[1] Some copies of the Eulenburg edition include two different timpani parts on the same staff, the more doubtful version differentiated by stems down and written in a facsimile of handwriting.

[edit] Movements

I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Menuet: Allegretto & trio
IV. Finale: Allegro

H. C. Robbins Landon calls this symphony a "great and indeed germinal work" and says that it is one of the very few Haydn symphonies of this period that survived all through the nineteenth century in various editions.^[2]

[edit] See also

List of symphonies by name

[edit] References

^ H. C. Robbins Landon, The Symphonies of Joseph Haydn New York: Macmillan (1956): 688. "Originally for 2 ob., 2 cor. in C alto and F, str. [fag.] Parts for 2 clarini and timp. added later; It is not certain that the crude timpani part in the EH archives is really Haydn's. ... The modern trumpet and timp. parts as pub. in the B & H. orchestral parts and the Eulenburg score (etc.) are patent forgeries."
^ HC Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works, 5 vols, (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976-) v. 2, Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790