Symphony No. 65 (Haydn)
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The Symphony No. 65 in A major (Hoboken I/65) is a symphony by Joseph Haydn.
[edit] Date of composition and scoring
The symphony was composed by 1778. It is scored for two oboes, two horns and strings.
[edit] Movements
Scholars have theorized that the eccentric slow movement may have been conceived as incidental music to a play[1], perhaps as Elaine Sisman suggests, Shakespeare's Hamlet.[2]
The finale is a hunting piece, similar to the famous finale to the 73rd symphony.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b HC Robins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works, 5 vols, (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976-) v. 2, Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790
- ^ Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn, ed. David Wyn Jones, Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-866216-5
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