Star violinist and conductor Scott Yoo explores the musical legacy of Haydn. His special guest is Geoff Nuttall from Charleston, South Carolina, a leading expert on Haydn. He contends that Haydn singularly invented the string quar...

Haydn: The King of Strings

Star violinist and conductor Scott Yoo explores the musical legacy of Haydn. His special guest is Geoff Nuttall from Charleston, South Carolina, a leading expert on Haydn. He contends that Haydn singularly invented the string quartet as a result of needing to provide so much music for the wealthy Esterházy family, his patrons throughout his life. He was also responsible for establishing the symphonic form. Much of this time he was at their remote palace in Hungary. Haydn was an early adopter of folk music idioms into his works. There is, in fact, some contention over which melodies he composed himself, and which melodies he adapted for his use. Each movement of the Emperor Quartet is played by various groups of musicians, both in Charleston and in Europe. Using the "Emporer" Quartet as an example, Geoff describes each of the four sections. The opening of the First Movement to the quartet may be an imitation of bagpipers that he heard while in England. The second movement is a set of variations on "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" ("God Save Emperor Francis"). This is an anthem Haydn wrote for Emperor Francis II. This melody is recognizable for its later use by the Nazis in their German national anthem, the Deutschlandlied.

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