Jospeh Haydn. Unfinished Symphony.?

Question

My choral teacher told us about Joseph Haydn and how he write an "unfinished" symphony. And the way she described it sounded VERY interesting.
And I want to hear it really bad.
Anyone know a site where I can hear it?
I couldn't find it on limewire.

Answer 1

Are you sure your teacher didn't mean Schubert's Symphony #8 , which does bear the title "Unfinished", in that only 2 movements survived? I remember seeing an article years ago where somebody had a sketch of what they claimed was for the 3rd mvt, a scherzo, but I don't know what became of that...

Fredrick Z, you should be shot at dawn, but I enjoyed the journey.

"Unfurnished" Symphony indeed.....

Answer 2

The answers above are correct.

The Farewell Symphony was one of several attempts Haydn's made to get himself and his orchesrta out of Hoboken New Jersey, (an altogether understandable desire) where they had been shoot at by a relatvie of one of the Sopranos with whom they were working. The various attempts to escape have been extensively studied and cataloged and are therefore known as Hoboken numbers.

It was during this trip that Haydn composed his famous symphony #2.5.6 "The Unsubtitled."

He started another symphony but never got around to finishing it.

Later the score of this fledgling symphony was sent to Schubert by a Nigerian "banker" who said he had nine million dollars for Schubert if only Franz would give him his bank account number.

Schubert was so taken by the prospect of sudden riches that he too didn't complete the symphony.

About this time, Schubert also didn't complete one other symphony because he found himself in miserable living conditons. He was in an apartment with no chairs, no sofa, no cable TV no bed, nothing. The piece he didn't finish at that loction is the "Unfurnished" symphony.

You've asked good questions, and we all are only to pleased to supply you with useful and 100% correct data. How else will you learn?

Answer 3

To ans. yr. Q:

Your choral teacher left town? You can't ask him / her? Maybe he/she could bring a CD for you all to listen to before a rehearsal and during the break .... no? Why not? That is part of your education, certainly.

The symphony is very famous....when I was a child my father had me listen since it is child-friendly... really nice ... an investment in a recording would not be amiss......and you could check with your local classical radio station to see when the next hearing is planned, and maybe they would schedule it and let you know when (Make a phone call, that is) ....

I must say, there are several reasons a symphony *should* be left unfinished and one of them certainly is the various answers given here which *never* happen when symphonies are finished

.....except I did hear from a friend of mine who went to The Eastman Conservatory in Rochester, New York (State, USA) that when it came time in a student orchestral performance of the 1812 Overture {which was finished for sure} when it came time for the cannon to go off, some of the students emptied a big bag of duck feathers over the side of the balcony ....

frederick z's answer reminds me of the answer given by JR (was it?) about how Rachmaninoff was an early / post / and late romantic. ...you know, life just would not be quite right without serious musicians .... at least, not from where I am sitting .....


xxxxx
Scots Pines

Answer 4

I wonder whether your teacher was thinking of the 'Farewell' Symphony, no. 45 in f# minor? In the last movement, the orchestral players leave, in pairs, until just two violins are left playing to the end. (It was Haydn's not so subtle hint to his patron, Esterhazy, that the band wanted to leave the countryside where they had been marooned for a lot longer than anyone wanted to be.)

I don't know of any Haydn symphony with a nickname 'unfinished' as such. If you search for the piece under its actual number '45', there are scores of performances of this one, too many to mention.

Answer 5

Try researching the symphony by the H number (H for Hoboken, who chronicled Haydn's works). You're looking for the 12th Symphony Haydn wrote in his London series. It is known as Symphony no. 104 ...
I played it about 25 years ago, and yes, it is a fabulous piece. You might just want to invest in a trip to the best music store you can find and ask them to order a CD for you.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Well, you could always BUY a CD with that piece on it. It's such a standard, it is usually bundled with other classical works on a sampler.

Answer 8

If you search on Amazon.com, sometimes they have sound files of symphonic works.