List of string quartets by Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn wrote 83 quartets. Most six quartets are each combined into one opus number. Today, the string quartets of Haydn are counted according to Section III of Hoboken directory.

Opus 1

  • Quartet No. 1 in B flat major, Op 1, No. 1, Hoboken no. 1 Presto
  • Minuet
  • Adagio
  • Minuet
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, Op 1, No. 2, Hoboken no. 2 Allegro molto
  • Minuet
  • Adagio
  • Minuet
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Opus 1, No. 3, Hoboken no. 3 adagio
  • Minuet
  • Scherzo: Presto
  • Menuet
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 4 in G Major, Opus 1, No. 4, Hoboken no. 4 Presto
  • Minuet
  • Adagio ma non tanto
  • Minuet
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 5 in E Flat Major, Opus 1, No. 5, Hoboken no. 5 Presto
  • Minuet
  • Adagio
  • Minuet
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 6 in C major, Op 1, No. 6, Hoboken no. 6 Presto assai
  • Minuet
  • Adagio
  • Minuet
  • Finale: Allegro

Opus 2

  • Quartet No. 7 in D major, Op 2, No. 1, Hoboken no. 7 allegro
  • Minuet
  • Adagio
  • Minuet
  • Finale: Allegro molto
  • Quartet No. 8 in G major, Op 2, No 2, Hoboken no. 8 Allegro molto
  • Minuet
  • Adagio
  • Minuetto
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet in E-flat major, Op 2, No 3 ( authorship disputed), Hoboken No.. 9
  • Quartet No. 9 in F major, Op 2, # 4, Hoboken no. 10 Presto
  • Menuet
  • Adagio
  • Menuet: Allegretto
  • Finale: Allegro
  • Quartet in D major, Op 2, No 5 ( authorship disputed) Hoboken no. 11
  • Quartet No. 10 in B flat major, Op 2, # 6, Hoboken no. 12 adagio
  • Menuet
  • Scherzo: Presto
  • Menuet
  • Finale: Presto

Opus 3 ( authorship refuted )

The long held for six works of Haydn String Quartets Op 3 come in truth Romanus Hoffstetter, a Benedictine monk of the Abbey Amorbach in the Odenwald, who she probably composed in the 1760s. The reason for the incorrect assignment of Haydn was that the old composer in 1805 a catalog of works authorized containing these works. However, many philological considerations speak against Haydn's authorship: the lack of early hand- written copies of the etched name Hofstetter in the print templates that late for a Haydn 's early work publication (1777 in Paris) and the fact that the works are not listed in Haydn's design catalog. Unusually for the Viennese classics are the smooth, superficial tone and unusually colorful series of works. And if the quartets but sound here and there by Haydn, the problem is at the Haydn enthusiasm Hoff Stetter that this 1802 so puts it, " I am everything flowing with only haydn shear spring, so beautiful, remains tieff bey me sit, that I can not contain myself, every now and then something so good it may just go to imitate. ".

The six string quartets op.3 were historically known by the name of Joseph Haydn and had been recognized by that even in 1805 when his compositions. 1964, presented Alan Tyson and HC Robbins Landon Haydn's authorship in question and arranged the works of Roman Hofstetter to. Of these, however, there are no string quartets of Haydn's manuscripts still Hofstetter. The oldest source, a pressure of the Parisian publisher Bailleux from 1777, Haydn mentioned as the composer of Opus on the title page. However, it can be seen in the sets of parts of the first two quartets that from them the name Hofstetter was blotted out. Landon and Tyson concluded that Hofstetter was the author of all six plants probably Bailleux and they 've sold out in paragraph reasons better known under the name of Haydn. This thesis joined later to the most Haydn researchers. A published 1986 essay by Günther Zuntz, the Tyson and Landon imputed serious philological errors and advocated the retention of the attribution to Haydn, on the other hand, was largely ignored.

  • Quartet in E- flat major, Op 3, No. 1, Hoboken no. 13
  • Quartet in C major, Op 3, # 2, Hoboken no. 14
  • Quartet in G Major, Opus 3, No. 3, Hoboken no. 15
  • Quartet in B flat major, Op 3, # 4, Hoboken no. 16
  • Quartet in F Major, Opus 3, No. 5, Hoboken no. 17
  • Quartet in A Major, Opus 3, No. 6, Hoboken no. 18

Opus 9 (1771 )

  • Quartet No. 11 in D minor, Opus 9, No. 4, Hoboken no. 22 Moderato
  • Menuet
  • Adagio Cantabile
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 12 in C Major, Opus 9, No. 1, Hoboken no. 19 Moderato
  • Menuet: Un poco allegretto
  • Adagio
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Opus 9, No. 3, Hoboken no. 21 Moderato
  • Menuet: Allegretto
  • Largo
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 14 in E Flat Major, Opus 9, No. 2, Hoboken no. 20 Moderato
  • Menuet
  • Adagio Cantabile
  • Finale: Allegro molto di
  • Quartet No. 15 in B flat major, Opus 9, No. 5, Hoboken no. 23 Poco adagio
  • Menuet: Allegretto
  • Largo: Cantabile
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 16 in A Major, Op 9, No. 6, Hoboken no. 24 Presto
  • Menuet
  • Adagio
  • Finale: Presto

Opus 17 (1771 )

  • Quartet No. 17 in F major, Op 17, No. 2, Hoboken no. 26 Moderato
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Adagio
  • Finale: Allegro molto di
  • Quartet No. 18 in E- flat major, Op 17, No. 1, Hoboken no. 25 Moderato
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Adagio
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No.19 in C minor, Op 17, No. 4, Hoboken no. 28 Moderato
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Adagio cantabile
  • Finale: Allegro
  • Quartet No. 20 in D Major, Op 17, No. 6, Hoboken no. 30 Presto
  • Menuetto
  • Largo
  • Presto
  • Quartet No. 21 in E flat major, Op 17, No. 3, Hoboken no. 27 Andante grazioso
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Adagio
  • Allegro molto
  • Quartet No. 22 in G major, Op 17, No. 5, Hoboken no. 29 Moderato
  • Menuetto
  • Adagio
  • Presto

Opus 20, the "Sun Quartets " ( 1772)

  • Quartet No. 23 in F minor, Op 20, No. 5, Hoboken no. 35 Moderato
  • Menuet
  • Adagio
  • Final: Fuga a due soggetti
  • Quartet No. 24 in A Major, Op 20, No. 6, Hoboken no. 36 Allegro di molto e scherzando
  • Adagio
  • Menuet
  • Fuga con tre soggetti
  • Quartet No. 25 in C major, Op 20, No. 2, Hoboken no. 32 Moderato
  • Capriccio: Adagio
  • Minuet: Allegretto
  • Fuga a quattro soggetti
  • Quartet No. 26 in G minor, Op 20, No. 3, Hoboken no. 33 Allegro con spirito
  • Minuet: Allegretto
  • Poco adagio
  • Finale: Allegro molto di
  • Quartet No. 27 in D Major, Op 20, No. 4, Hoboken no. 34 Allegro di molto
  • Un poco adagio e affettuoso
  • Menuet alla Zingarese: Allegretto
  • Presto e scherzando
  • Quartet No. 28 in E flat major, Op 20, No. 1, Hoboken no. 31 Allegro moderato
  • Minuet: Un poco allegretto
  • Affetuoso e sostenuto
  • Finale: Presto

Opus 33 "Russian Quartets " (1781 )

The quartets are dedicated to the 1781 time in Vienna, Grand Duke Paul of Russia, hence the nickname.

With them, Haydn composed string quartets of completely new type ( "on a new gantz special kind "). Thus, the head sets have a implementation and follow the sonata form. The minuet was replaced by a scherzo.

The Russian Quartets created a great stir, particularly Mozart, they influenced a lot. Mozart wrote after Haydn's model of six quartets, among them the " Dissonance Quartet ," which mark the culmination of Mozart's quartet work.

  • Quartet No. 31 in B Minor, Op 33, No. 1, Hoboken no. 37 Allegro moderato
  • Scherzo
  • Andante
  • Final
  • Quartet No. 30 in E flat major, Op 33, No. 2 (" The Joke " ), Hoboken No.. 38 Allegro moderato
  • Scherzo
  • Largo e sostenuto
  • Final
  • Quartet No. 32 in C major, Op 33, No. 3 ( "Bird Quartet " ), Hoboken No.. 39 Allegro moderato
  • Scherzo: Allegretto
  • Adagio ma non troppo
  • Finale: Rondo - Presto
  • Quartet No. 34 in B flat major, Op 33, No. 4, Hoboken no. 40 Allegro moderato
  • Scherzo: Allegretto
  • Largo
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 29 in G major, Op 33, No. 5 ( " How are you ?"), Hoboken No.. 41 Vivace assai
  • Largo e cantabile
  • Scherzo
  • Final
  • Quartet No. 33 in D Major, Op 33, No. 6, Hoboken no. 42 Vivace assai
  • Andante
  • Scherzo: Allegretto
  • Finale: Allegretto

Opus 42 ( 1785 )

  • Quartet No. 35 in D minor, Op 42, Hoboken No.. 43 Andante ed Innocentemente
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Adagio e cantabile
  • Finale: Presto

Opus 50 "Prussian Quartets " (1787 )

The King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia Quartets dedicated to develop those found in op.33 classical musical style further. Based on a rather simple issue the motivic material is artfully processed, each instrument is treated equally, especially in the head sets.

Especially the first quartet shows in the first sentence a triplet motif over a throbbing bass that determines the whole set.

The slow movements reach a previously unknown cantabile.

  • Quartet No. 36 in B flat major, Op 50, No. 1, Hoboken no. 44 allegro
  • Adagio non lento
  • Menuetto: Poco allegretto
  • Finale: Vivace
  • Quartet No. 37 in C major, Op 50, No. 2, Hoboken no. 45 Vivace
  • Adagio: Cantabile
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Vivace assai
  • Quartet No. 38 in E flat major, Op 50, No. 3, Hoboken no. 46 Allegro con brio
  • Andante piú tosto Allegretto
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 39 in F sharp minor, Op 50, No. 4, Hoboken no. 47 Allegro spirituoso
  • Andante
  • Menuetto: Poco allegretto
  • Final: Fuga - Allegro moderato
  • Quartet No. 40 in F major, Op 50, No. 5, Hoboken no. 48 Allegro moderato
  • Poco adagio
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Vivace
  • Quartet No. 41 in D Major, Op 50, No. 6 ( "Frog Quartet " ), Hoboken No.. 49 allegro
  • Poco adagio
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Allegro con spirito

Opus 51 (1787 )

  • " The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross ", Op 51 (Transcription of the same work for orchestra) L' Introduzione: Maestoso ed adagio
  • Sonata I: Father, dimitte illis, non enim sciunt quid faciunt ( Largo )
  • Sonata II: Amen dico tibi: hodie mecum eris in paradiso ( Grave e cantabile )
  • Sonata III: Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua! ( Grave )
  • Sonata IV Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? ( Largo )
  • Sonata V: Sitio ( Adagio )
  • Sonata VI: Consummatum est! ( Lento )
  • Sonata VII: Father! In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ( Largo )
  • Il terremoto ( Presto e con tutta la forza )

Opus 54 (1788 )

These and the subsequent group (op. 64) are devoted to the Viennese merchant Tost.

  • Quartet No. 42 in C major, Op 54, No. 2, Hoboken no. 57 Vivace
  • Adagio
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Adagio - Presto - Adagio
  • Quartet No. 43 in G major, Op 54, No. 1, Hoboken no. 58 Allegro con brio
  • Allegretto
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 44 in E- flat major, Op 54, No. 3, Hoboken no. 59 allegro
  • Largo cantabile
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Presto

Opus 55 (1788 )

  • Quartet No. 45 in A Major, Op 55, No. 1, Hoboken no. 60 allegro
  • Adagio cantabile
  • Menuetto
  • Finale: Vivace
  • Quartet No. 46 in F minor, Op 55, No. 2 (" Razor Quartet " ), Hoboken No.. 61 Andante o piú tosto allegretto
  • Allegro
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 47 in B flat major, Op 55, No. 3, Hoboken no. 62 Vivace assai
  • Adagio ma non troppo
  • Menuetto
  • Finale: Presto

Opus 64 (1790)

  • Quartet No. 48 in C major, Op 64, No. 1, Hoboken no. 65 Allegro moderato
  • Menuetto: Allegretto ma non troppo
  • Allegretto scherzando
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 49 in B Minor, Op 64, No. 2, Hoboken no. 68 Allegro spiritoso
  • Adagio ma non troppo
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 50 in B flat major, Op 64, No. 3, Hoboken no. 67 Vivace assai
  • Adagio
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Allegro con spirito
  • Quartet No. 51 in G major, Op 64, No. 4, Hoboken no. 66 Allegro con brio
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Adagio Cantabile e sostenuto
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 52 in D Major, Op 64, No. 5, ( " Lerch Quartet " ) Hoboken no. 63 Allegro moderato
  • Adagio cantabile
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Vivace
  • Quartet No. 53 in E flat major, Op 64, No. 6, Hoboken no. 64 allegro
  • Andante
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Presto

Opus 71 " Apponyis Quartets " (1793)

  • Quartet No. 54 in B flat major, Op 71, No. 1, Hoboken no. 69 allegro
  • Adagio
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • (Finale ): Vivace
  • Quartet No. 55 in D Major, Op 71, No. 2, Hoboken no. 70 Adagio - Allegro
  • Adagio ( cantabile )
  • Menuetto: Allegretto
  • Finale: Allegretto
  • Quartet No. 56 in E flat major, Op 71, No. 3, Hoboken no. 71 Vivace
  • Andante con moto
  • Menuetto
  • Finale: Vivace

Opus 74 (1793)

  • Quartet No. 57 in C major, Op 74, No. 1, Hoboken no. 72 Allegro ( moderato )
  • Andantino ( grazioso )
  • Menuetto: Allegro
  • Finale: Vivace
  • Quartet No. 58 in F major, Op 74, No. 2, Hoboken no. 73 Allegro spiritoso
  • Andante grazioso
  • Menuetto
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 59 in G minor, Op 74, No. 3, ( " Reiter Quartet " ) Hoboken no. 74 allegro
  • Largo assai
  • Menuetto ( Allegretto )
  • Finale: Allegro con brio

Opus 76 " Erdődy Quartets " (1799 )

They are dedicated to Count Erdoedy and are therefore also referred to as " Erdődy Quartets ". As in the previous group, these quartets are not only written for a small circle of listeners, but for the concert hall. In the group you will find the most famous String Quartet Haydn: the " Emperor Quartet ", with the variations on " God Save Franz the Emperor ", the Austrian Imperial anthem and the song later Germany.

On Mutopia the notes are available.

  • Quartet No. 60 in G major, Op 76, No. 1, Hoboken no. 75 Allegro con spirito
  • Adagio sostenuto
  • Menuet Presto
  • Final. Allegro ma non troppo
  • Quartet No. 61 in D minor, Op 76, No. 2 (" Quint Quartet " ), Hoboken No.. 76 allegro
  • Andante o piú tosto allegretto
  • Menuetto. Allegro ma non troppo
  • Final. Vivace Assai
  • Quartet No. 62 in C major, Op 76, No. 3 (" Emperor Quartet " ), Hoboken No.. 77 allegro
  • Poco Adagio. Cantabile - Vr. I-IV
  • Menuetto
  • Final. Presto
  • Quartet No. 63 in B flat major, Op 76, No. 4 ( " Sunrise " ), Hoboken No.. 78 Allegro con spirito
  • Adagio
  • Menuet. allegro
  • Final. Allegro ma non troppo
  • Quartet No. 64 in D Major, Op 76, No. 5, Hoboken no. 79 Allegretto - Allegro
  • Largo cantabile e mesto
  • Menuetto
  • Final. Presto
  • Quartet No. 65 in E flat major, Op 76, No. 6, Hoboken no. 80 Allegretto - Allegro
  • Fantasia. adagio
  • Menuetto
  • Final. Allegro Spirituoso

Opus 77 " Lobkowitz Quartets " (1799 )

  • Quartet No. 66 in G major, Op 77, No. 1, ( " Komplimentierquartett " ) Hoboken no. 81 Allegro moderato
  • Adagio
  • Menuetto: Presto
  • Finale: Presto
  • Quartet No. 67 in F major, Op 77, No. 2, Hoboken no. 82 Allegro moderato
  • Menuet: Presto
  • Andante
  • Finale: Vivace assai

Opus 103 (1803)

  • Quartet No. 68 in D minor, Op 103, Hoboken no. 83 ( incomplete, only sets 2 & 3) Andante grazioso
  • Menuetto ma non troppo presto
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