Haydn - Fantasia in C, Menuetti, Variations, Deutsche Tanze | Naxos 8573934

Haydn - Fantasia in C, Menuetti, Variations, Deutsche Tanze

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573934

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 30th November 2018

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Haydn’s career coincided with changes in the standard keyboard as the fortepiano, and then the pianoforte, replaced the harpsichord and clavichord. This album reflects these changes. Haydn probably wrote the charming 5 Variationen in D major for the harpsichord around the mid-1750s while the Fantasia in C major, with abundant hand crossings and effects, was intended to exploit the particular sonority of the fortepiano. In 1792 he wrote new dances for a Viennese masked ball and the Empress herself asked for keyboard arrangements which Haydn provided in the shape of the sparkling Deutsche Tänze and Menuetti.

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