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Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn’s English Songs: The Canzonettas

July 12, 2017 By Nora Miller Rubinoff Leave a Comment

Haydn’s English songs, The Canzonettas, are an important collection of Franz Joseph Haydn’s work and a true turning point in the development of the Art Song.  IPA Source offers the IPA text for all 12 of Haydn’s English Canzonettas.

(Image source: Haydn’s English songs: the canzonettas by Ray Heigemeir, Public Services Librarian for Music, Stanford University, http://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2014/11/haydns-english-songs-canzonettas)

Upon the death of his court benefactor, Prince Nikolaus, in 1790, Haydn was sent in to retirement by the prince’s unmusical successor. Still at the height of his fame and musical abilities, Haydn chose rather to accept an invitation by the German composer and impresario, Johann Peter Salomon to present his new symphonies with a orchestra before an already adoring public in London. Thus, Josef Haydn, the longtime court composer, began his new life as an independent musician.

Haydn Meets Poet, Anne Hunter

The journeys (1791–1792 and 1794–1795) were a great success, garnishing Haydn both fame and fortune. For the development of the Art Song, his time in London had special significance where he made the acquaintance of the vastly improved pianoforte Broadwood and the poet, Anne Hunter, wife of the renowned surgeon and anatomist Dr. John Hunter.

The English pianoforte was truly a revelation for Haydn whose previous keyboard works were written for the Viennese Stein pianoforte with a much lighter touch and tone more akin to the clavichord and harpsichord than the modern piano. The English instrument possessed a stronger, more robust tone capable of a greater range of dynamics and sustaining power. Anne Hunter was already a successful and influential lyric poet, known for her social literary parties, when Haydn arrived.

A True Turning Point In The Development Of The Art Song

The result of this fortunate professional collaboration with Mrs. Hunter and the new possibilities presented by the more powerful English pianoforte was a true turning point in the development of the Art Song. Whereas Beethoven is credited with the development of the first song cycle, it was Haydn with the English canzonettas who gave us the first marriage of keyboard, voice and poetry which was to become the hallmark of the 19th century Art song.

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‘It seems clear that Haydn’s intention was to compose technically easy songs which could be sung at sight by any educated music-lover and played on the piano a prima vista by the average lady of musical inclination … Haydn’s earlier Lieder had not been entirely successful, for the texts were generally second-rate – in accordance with the prevailing bad literary taste in Vienna at the time – and some of the criticisms in German literary and musical journals had been distinctly unfavourable. The English texts by Mrs Hunter, although in the pastoral-cum-sentimental English tradition, are far better than Haydn’s previous German texts. Musically, too, the English Canzonettas are worlds away from the kleinbürgerliche literary trash which Haydn, who like Leonardo used to call himself “un uomo senza lettere”, indiscriminately set to music’ (H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works. [Vol. III] Haydn in England, 1791-1795 (1976), pp. 377-8).

– From Bernard Quaritch Ltd. rare books: http://www.quaritch.com/books/haydn-franz-joseph/dr-haydn-s-vi-original-canzonettas-for-the-voice-w/E1223/

 


IPA Text of Haydn’s Canzonettas

 

Sailor’s Song, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn Sailor’s Song, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/sailor-s-song-6512.html

 

A Pastoral Song, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/a-pastoral-song-6513.html

 

Piercing Eyes, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/piercing-eyes-6514.html

 

The Spirit’s Song, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/the-spirit-s-song-6515.html

 

The Mermaid’s Song, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/the-mermaid-s-song-6516.html

 

Despair, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/despair-6517.html

 

Fidelity, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/fidelity-6518.html

 

O Tuneful Voice, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/o-tuneful-voice-6519.html

 

Content, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/content-6520.html

 

Recollection, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/recollection-6521.html

 

She Never Told Her Love, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/she-never-told-her-love-6522.html

 

The Wanderer, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/the-wanderer-6523.html

 

Sympathy, as set by Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.ipasource.com/sympathy-6524.html

 

 

Interested in more from Papa Haydn? View our entire collection of IPA texts as set by Franz Joseph Haydn on IPA Source here.

Filed Under: Composers, Featured Tagged With: Anne Hunter, Canzonettas, complete works, English texts, Franz Joseph Haydn, Haydn, images, IPA, Joseph Haydn

Selected texts by Joseph Haydn, hand-curated by voice type

July 10, 2017 By Nora Miller Rubinoff Leave a Comment

Joseph HaydnJoseph Haydn, born March 31, 1732, was an Austrian composer. Haydn had involvement in the development of chamber music and is sometimes known as the “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet.”

Haydn was a court musician for a good portion of his career, which largely isolated him from other composers and music trends.

A celebrated European composer, Haydn was friend and mentor to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and teacher to Ludwig von Beethoven. Haydn passed away May 31, 1809.

Learn more about Joseph Haydn via Wikipedia here.

Hand-curated by voice type, a selection of texts available on IPA Source, as set by Joseph Haydn:

 

SOPRANO

Quis non posset contristari

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/quis-non-posset-contristari.html

Listen to Filomena Amaro: https://youtu.be/huiACR7k318

 

Trinche vaine allegramente

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/trinche-vaine-allegramente.html

Listen to Juliane Banse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCwa2TmQcyI

 

Auf starkem Fittiche

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/auf-starkem-fittiche.html

Listen to Elisabeth Grümmer: https://youtu.be/7y5C0QvobGY

 

Mit Staunen sieht das Wunderwerk

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/mit-staunen-sieht-das-wunderwerk.html

Listen to Lisa Milne with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic and Netherlands Radio Choir: https://youtu.be/ULnraLsaTyc

 

Nun beut die Flur

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/nun-beut-die-flur.html

Listen to Sally Matthews with the London Symphony Orchestra: https://youtu.be/BQoNM-f9G0w

 

Licht und Leben sind geschwächet

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/licht-und-leben-sind-geschwachet.html

Listen to Helen Donath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcFvlmhg_O0

 

Welche Labung für die Sinne

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/welche-labung-fur-die-sinne.html

Listen to Mara Mastalir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T6DgO3q7uk

 

MEZZO / CONTRALTO

Fac me vere tecum flere

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/fac-me-vere-tecum-flere.html

Listen to Klara Takacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PcGZ5tPMqE

 

TENOR

Io sposar l’empio tiranno

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/io-sposar-l-empio-tiranno.html

Listen to Fritz Wunderlich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra50gLKfvtM

 

Mit Würd’ und Hoheit angetan

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/mit-wurd-und-hoheit-angetan.html

Listen to Fritz Wunderlich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KDiZ0TuQ9M

 

Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/nun-schwanden-vor-dem-heiligen-strahle.html

Listen to Josef Protschka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24tP7zwxDw

 

Dem Druck erlieget die Natur

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/dem-druck-erlieget-die-natur.html

Listen to  Siegfried Jerusalem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ9494Kf2bM

 

Hier steht der Wand’rer nun

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/hier-steht-der-wand-rer-nun.html

Listen to Claes H. Ahnsjö: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCc1K_IhpMw

 

Fac me cruce custodiri

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/fac-me-cruce-custodiri.html

Listen to Claes-Håkon Ahnsjö: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoWST3UyY0&list=PLj0bGFv6iK5s-EJnM0p62Z-Ik_UQDmYGC&index=10

 

Vado a pugnar contento

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/vado-a-pugnar-contento.html

Listen to Hermann Prey & Gundula Janowitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZYJNNL-tvw

 

BARITONE

Dice benissimo

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/dice-benissimo.html

Listen to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDaavjovO6A

 

Se dal suo braccio oppresso

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/se-dal-suo-braccio-oppresso.html

Listen to Samuel Ramey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86g34J6hLpw

Teco lo guida al campo

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/teco-lo-guida-al-campo.html

Listen to Thomas Quasthoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=668OcxuPBtw

 

BASS

Nun scheint in vollem Glanze der Himmel

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/nun-scheint-in-vollem-glanze-der-himmel.html

 

Schon eilet froh der Ackersmann

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/schon-eilet-froh-der-ackersmann.html

 

Der muntre Hirt versammelt nun

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/der-muntre-hirt-versammelt-nun.html

 

Erblicke hier, betörter Mensch

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/erblicke-hier-betorter-mensch.html

 

Seht: auf die breiten Wiesen hin

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/seht-auf-die-breiten-wiesen-hin.html

 

Un cor si tenero

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/un-cor-si-tenero.html

 

Il pensier sta negl’oggetto

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/il-pensier-sta-negl-oggetto.html

 

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Filed Under: Composers, Featured, Voice Classification Tagged With: composers, fach, fach system, Joseph Haydn, voice, voice classification, voice type

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