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35-572: The autograph manuscript of the symphony is preserved in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, and was published in facsimile editions in 1959 (Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) and 2010 (Laaber-Verlag). The tale of how the symphony was composed was told by Haydn in old age to his biographers Albert Christoph Dies and Georg August Griesinger . At that time, Haydn's patron Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy

70-409: A direct appeal, put his request into the music of the symphony: during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left (played by Haydn himself and his concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini ). Esterházy seems to have understood the message: the court returned to Eisenstadt the day following

105-708: A fragment of the Gutenberg Bible and the Chronica Hungarorum -the first book printed in Hungary. Its Antiqua Collection holds 13,000 items from the 16th century, including a first edition of Nostradamus' The Prophecies . The Old Hungarian Library is a collection of 8,500 old Hungarian books including the Vizsoly Bible , the first complete Bible printed in Hungarian. The Apponyi Collection

140-448: A listener hearing a recorded performance: several of the musicians are given little solos to play, after which they snuff out the candle on their music stand and take their leave; other musicians leave without solos. The order of departure is: first oboe and second horn (solos), bassoon (no solo), second oboe and first horn (solos), double bass (solo), cello (no solo), orchestral violins (solos; first chair players silent), viola (no solo). As

175-631: A nationwide movement of book donations to the library. In 1808, the Hungarian National Assembly (" Diet ") created the Hungarian National Museum to collect the historical, archaeological and natural relics of Hungary. The Museum was merged into the Library and for the last 200 years this is how it has existed, a national depository for written, printed and objective relics of the Hungarian past. In 1846,

210-410: A number of ways (just before the recapitulation , for example, new material is introduced, which might have been used as the second subject in the exposition in a more conventional work). Also, the exposition moves to C ♯ minor , the dominant minor, rather than the more usual relative major. The second, slow, movement in A major and 8 time is also in sonata form. It begins with

245-418: A relaxed melody played by muted violins, featuring a repeated "hiccuping" motif. The mood gradually becomes more somber and meditative with an alternation between major and minor modes, resembling many similar passages in the later work of Schubert . There follows a series of dissonant suspensions carried across the bar line, which are extended to extraordinary lengths by Haydn when the same material appears in

280-454: A repetition of the first. The whole form might in any case be repeated as long as the dance lasted. Around Lully's time it became a common practice to score this middle section for a trio (such as two oboes and a bassoon , as is common in Lully). As a result, this middle section came to be called the minuet's trio , even when no trace of such an orchestration remains. The overall structure

315-679: Is a collection of over 3,000 Hungarian-related items donated by Count Albert Apponyi in 1924. One of its most notable items is the Tabula Hungariae , the earliest surviving printed map of Hungary. Other collections include the Leaflet Collection; Old Cyrillica Collection, mostly consisting of liturgical books written in Romanian Cyrillic , Early Printed Books Archive, and the History of Binding Collection. With

350-611: Is a library in Budapest , Hungary , located in Buda Castle . It is one of two Hungarian national libraries, the other being University of Debrecen Library . The library was founded in 1802 by the highly patriotic Hungarian aristocrat Count Ferenc Széchényi . Széchényi traveled the world buying Hungarian books, which he assembled and donated to the nation. In 1803, the public library was opened in Pest . Széchényi's example resulted in

385-438: Is called rounded binary or minuet form : After these developments by Lully, composers occasionally inserted a modified repetition of the first (A) section or a section that contrasted with both the A section and what was thereby rendered the third or C section, yielding the form A–A′–B–A or A–B–C–A, respectively; an example of the latter is the third movement of Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major, K. 525, popularly known under

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420-530: Is highly unusual in Classical symphonies and was probably quite surprising to the Prince. (It is in this section of the last movement where the musicians stop playing, snuff out their candles, and leave in turn.). This is written in 8 time, modulates from A major to F ♯ major (pivoting between the two with C ♯ minor/major), and includes a bit of stage business that may not be obvious to

455-511: The Journal des Sçavans , the earliest academic journal in Europe. The library holds the largest manuscript collection in Hungary with about 1,400,000 total items. Notable items include the original copies of Himnusz , Hungary's national anthem, and Szózat , a Hungarian song. The Collection of Posters and Small Prints, established in 1935, holds about four million documents, making it one of

490-808: The Hungarian National Museum moved into its new building but it was not until 1949 that the Library became a separate entity again, with its current name. In 1985, the library moved to its new home at the Buda Castle Palace . The NSZL works on its catalogue's semantic availability. The library aims to collect "hungarica" which is describes as works published within Hungary, published in Hungarian, written by Hungarian authors, and those with Hungarian aspects. The library receives two copies of all publications and prints produced in Hungary. The library's Incunabulum Collection consists of 1,800 books printed before 1500; notable items include

525-506: The Theatre History Collection was established to take over the libraries of the theaters that remained after World War II . It holds 30,000 plays and 380,000 documents. The library's music collection holds 170,000 items of printed sheet music. Notable items include Joseph Haydn 's manuscripts and first edition works, items from Franz Liszt , and Ferenc Erkel 's operas' manuscripts. The library's photo collection

560-571: The biggest collections of the library. In 1939, the Map Collection became an independent department of the National Széchényi Library. As of 2015, the map collection encompasses over 300,000 items, with 3,400 map sheets belonging to the original Széchényi-collection from the early 1800s. Approximately a quarter of the maps' coverage is of historical Hungary, and the remaining maps in the collection cover areas all over

595-413: The final Adagio), violas , cellos and double basses ). The turbulent first movement of the work opens in a manner typical of Haydn's Sturm und Drang period, with descending minor arpeggios in the first violins against syncopated notes in the second violins and held chords in the winds. The movement can be explained structurally in terms of sonata form , but it departs from the standard model in

630-618: The final page of the score, held in Salzburg. Zoltán Kocsis gave the first performance of the discovered score in September 2014. 47°29′42″N 19°2′21″E  /  47.49500°N 19.03917°E  / 47.49500; 19.03917 Minuet A minuet ( / ˌ m ɪ nj u ˈ ɛ t / ; also spelled menuet ) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually written in 4 time but always played as if in 8 ( compound duple metre ) to reflect

665-414: The home key of F ♯ minor. The rhythmic intensity is increased at one point through the use of unison bariolage in the first violin part. The music eventually reaches the end of the recapitulation in a passage that sounds very much as if it were the end of the symphony but suddenly breaks off in a dominant cadence. What follows is a long coda -like section, in essence a second slow movement, which

700-513: The horn players. These slightly lengthened the horn's tubing, permitting the instrument to be used to play in keys a semitone lower than usual. The horn of the time was the valveless natural horn , which needed to be adjusted with inserted crooks to play in different keys. Haydn's purchase order is part of the evidence that the symphony was completed in the fall of 1772. The piece is written for two oboes , bassoon , two horns (in A, F♯ and E), and strings ( violins in two sections (four in

735-581: The influx of periodicals in the 19th century, József Szinnyei Sr.  [ hu ] established the National Newspaper Library in 1884. The library has about 250,000 volumes of periodicals. Of the Hungarian and international newspaper collection, almost 75 percent of its items are the only surviving copies. Notable items include the Nova Posoniensia  [ Wikidata ] , the first regular newspaper in Hungary, and

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770-455: The minuet was often considerably quicker and livelier and was sometimes written in 8 or 8 time Because the tempo of a minuet was not standard, the tempo direction tempo di minuetto was ambiguous unless qualified by another direction, as it sometimes was. Initially, before its adoption in contexts other than social dance, the minuet was usually in binary form , with two repeated sections of usually eight bars each. But

805-430: The number of remaining instruments dwindles, the sound emanating from the orchestra gradually becomes audibly thinner. The first chair violinists remain to complete the work. The ending is a kind of deliberate anticlimax and is usually performed as a very soft pianissimo . The work is probably one of the more familiar and frequently performed of the symphonies from the earlier period of Haydn's career. Haydn himself quoted

840-601: The opening of the first movement in his Symphony No. 85 , suggesting he knew that his audience would recognize it. For the musicologist James Webster , the work deserves its fame not so much for its affiliated anecdote but rather in its own right as superlative music, and he devoted to it a substantial book (Webster 1991) analyzing it in great detail and placing it in its musicological context. National Sz%C3%A9ch%C3%A9nyi Library The National Széchényi Library ( Hungarian : Országos Széchényi Könyvtár , pronounced [ˈorsaːɡoʃ ˈseːt͡ʃeːɲi ˈkøɲftaːr] ) ( OSZK )

875-409: The pace was quicker. Stylistically refined minuets, apart from the social dance context, were introduced—to opera at first—by Jean-Baptiste Lully , who included no fewer than 92 of them in his theatrical works and in the late 17th century the minuet was adopted into the suite , such as some of the suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel . Among Italian and some French composers

910-556: The performance. The work is in F ♯ minor. According to James Webster , this choice was unusual; indeed the Farewell Symphony is apparently the only known 18th-century symphony ever written in this key. The symphony could not be performed without the purchase of some special equipment: on 22 October 1772 Haydn signed an order (preserved in the scrupulously maintained Esterházy archives) for two special half-step slides ( German : Halbthönige Krummbögen ) for use by

945-440: The period would have been familiar with the popular dance. The name may refer to the short steps, pas menus , taken in the dance, or else be derived from the branle à mener or amener , popular group dances in early 17th-century France. The minuet was traditionally said to have descended from the bransle de Poitou , though there is no evidence making a clear connection between these two dances. The earliest treatise to mention

980-526: The possible connection of the name to the expression pas menus is Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister , published in Leipzig in 1717, but this source does not describe the steps as being particularly small or dainty. At the period when it was most fashionable it was controlled, ceremonious and graceful. The name of this dance is also given to a musical composition written in the same time and rhythm , though when not accompanying an actual dance

1015-429: The recapitulation. James Webster hears this music as programmatic , expressing the yearning for home. The following minuet is in the key of F ♯ major; its main peculiarity is that the final cadence of each section is made very weak (falling on the third beat), creating a sense of incompleteness. The last movement begins as a characteristic Haydn finale in fast tempo and cut time , written in sonata form in

1050-417: The second section eventually expanded, resulting in a kind of ternary form . The second (or middle) minuet provided a form of contrast by means of different key (although in many works, the second minuet stayed in the same key as the first minuet), orchestration, and thematic material. On a larger scale, two such minuets might be further combined, so that the first minuet was followed by a second one and then by

1085-524: The step pattern of the dance. The English word was adapted from the Italian minuetto and the French menuet . The term also describes the musical form that accompanies the dance, which subsequently developed more fully, often with a longer musical form called the minuet and trio , and was much used as a movement in the early classical symphony . While often stylized in instrumental forms, composers of

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1120-420: The title Eine kleine Nachtmusik . A livelier form of the minuet simultaneously developed into the scherzo (which was generally also coupled with a trio). This term came into existence approximately from Beethoven onwards, but the form itself can be traced back to Haydn . The minuet and trio eventually became the standard third movement in the four-movement classical symphony , Johann Stamitz being

1155-549: The world. The library has been digitizing its map collection in recent years to make cultural heritage items more accessible. The library partnered with the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics at Eötvös Loránd University to digitize some of the library's globes to create the Virtual Globes Museum . Tabula Hungariae , the first printed map of Hungary, is now digitized and accessible online. In 1949,

1190-404: Was established in 2007. Among other items, it holds 40,000 glass plates or photo and film negatives of the library's book collection. In 2014, a Hungarian librarian discovered four pages of Mozart's original score (autograph) of the sonata in Budapest's National Széchényi Library. Until then, only the last page of the autograph survived. The paper and handwriting of the four pages matched that of

1225-466: Was resident, together with all his musicians and retinue, at his favorite summer palace at Eszterháza in rural Hungary. The stay there had been longer than expected, and most of the musicians had been forced to leave their wives back at home in Eisenstadt , about a day's journey away. Longing to return, the musicians appealed to their Kapellmeister for help. The diplomatic Haydn, instead of making

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