Talk:Symphony No. 49 (Haydn)

Date of composition
Hello DavidRF. I see you've changed the date from 1768 to 1770-71. Could you indicate your source for this? I based 1768 on Robbins Landon (Haydn Symphonies, BBC), Pierre Barbaud (Haydn, Seuil (in French)) and Nicholas Kenyon (sleeve notes to Archiv recording). It's also the date indicated in List of symphonies by Joseph Haydn. Thanks and best wishes--Zeisseng 17:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * allmusic.com also says 1768. OK, I changed it back.  I was using David Hurwitz's Haydn book that has a slick table in the back listing the date, key and scoring for all the symphonies.  Hurwitz is more of a convenient reference than a scholarly reference like Robbins Landon, though.  He probably copied the date wrong (or perhaps I copied it wrong from the book).  Thanks for catching this. DavidRF 18:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Hoboken bases this on the autograph which actually says "768". (Book 1, p.61). Published by Sieber in 1771 together with symphony 41 and a pastiche in B-flat 2 movements of which are from Michael Haydn symphonies and one movement from a Joseph Haydn symphony (the pastiche is given I:B2, I think, in Hoboken's appendix in Book 1, p.269.) (Possibly published earlier.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 16:17, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Scoring
Please delete "continuo"! Haydn didn't use continuo in his symphonies. See James Webster, On the absence of keyboard continuo in Haydn's symphonies, in: Early Music, XVIII/4 (1990), p. 599-608. 77.11.105.177 (talk) 11:29, 27 November 2012 (UTC)