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String Quartet in B flat major, Hob III:78 "Sunrise": II. Adagio (Takács Quartet)

Title: String Quartet in B flat major, Hob.III:78, Op.76/4 "Sunrise": 2. Adagio Album: Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 No. 4-6 Artist: Takács Quartet Composer: Joseph Haydn About the piece: Haydn published Op. 76, his last set of six string quartets in 1797 just one year before a young Beethoven would begin his own first foray into the same genre. From approximately 1759 to 1799, Haydn composed 78 string quartets over a period of forty years of which at least 30 are "celebrated" as masterworks of the form. It seems his powers never diminished. Indeed, one feels that he only continued to get better and better placing Op. 76 at the zenith of his achievements. Written in Haydn's "final" phase, the quartets are bold and burnished, composed for public performance at the height of his international fame on the heels of his grand concert trips to London. The six quartets also stand alone in a special historical context coming after Mozart and before Beethoven. So beloved and enduring are these works that three of them have nicknames, bestowed upon them by an adoring public who, at one time, knew each quartet as we might know the stars at night. Haydn's genial brilliance tends to dominate his persona overshadowing the nuanced poignancy and even darkness one finds in his slow movements. The Adagio is a kind of holy hymn, a delicate supplication tinged with a mysterious sorrow. It is not hard to imagine this as a somber sunset, a counterweight to the ebullience of the first movement. Source: Kai Christiansen About the composer: Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet". Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their Eszterháza Castle. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe. He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a tutor of Beethoven, and the elder brother of composer Michael Haydn. Source: Wikipedia Painting by Stable Diffusion