Haydn Op 1 I always watch this with deep love & nostalgia. Nearly 50 years ago on my beautiful English Thomas Kennedy viola, with my husband Brian on his early cello, & 2 dear violin friends Angela & Naomi, Angela an exceptionally beautiful musician for an amateur, we used to play the 2nd movement only as it was the only one the 3 less able of us could manage. In my mind we sounded just like this. There was so much love in the room. For Haydn, for the music and for each other. My beloved husband now 18 years deceased. Frequent contact lost with the two violins. But the music still sounds on triumphant from 250+ years in the past. Haydn was and still is my favourite composer. A superstar in London, Paris & Vienna and the most famous composer in Europe in his lifetime. Still composing in his 70s. I'm now in my 70s & can only marvel. The most famous composer in Europe in his lifetime.
Helen Dowland What a lovely comment. Your quite right, this is a fine performance of a very early quartet, in fact it’s astonishing the quality given how it pre-dates virtually every known work in the form. For those with ears to hear, Haydn is indeed worth a lifetime’s study; a very great composer indeed whose 68 string quartets are truly one of the greatest pinnacles of western classical music. Haydn is a second, truly great companion.
What a wonderful composer Haydn was! He brings such joy to our hearts!! May many be enchanted by this wonderful quartet...just one of many great ones!!!
I love it as I am watching how the brilliant string players interlocking among themselves making beautiful music from Haydn in 5 movements! Thank you for sharing!
It really is remarkable that Haydn was producing work of this quality so early in the history of the string quartet. The ten very early ‘divertimento a quattro’ quartets (Opera 0, 1, and 2) were written probably between 1754 and 1757, so to give a musical context, around the time of Mozart’s birth. Where Haydn then took the quartet set a benchmark by which almost every serious composer to the present day has been judged. A beautiful, committed performance of one of the ten pre-Opus 9 quartets, which like all this composer’s works, whatever period they are from, are well worth programming.
If you listen to Franz Xaver Richter, Michael Haydn (the authentic works, MH 319, 299, 316, and the string quintets), Franz Ignaz von Beecke, etc, you realize Haydn's "developments" are not really that special. The guy actually is too happy all the time in comparison to those.
With each of the composers I adore I have chosen to begin at the begining- as far as Opus number. This is my first listen to this and whether it is too fast or what I cannot say, though, what I can say is Bravo! I really dug this; well done Zagreb Quartet and Holy Wow Maestro Hayden. Love, Laughter, Love
If you listen to Franz Xaver Richter, Michael Haydn (the authentic works, MH 319, 299, 316, and the string quintets), Franz Ignaz von Beecke, etc, you realize Haydn's "developments" are not really that special. The guy actually is too happy all the time in comparison to those.
Haydn Op 1 I always watch this with deep love & nostalgia. Nearly 50 years ago on my beautiful English Thomas Kennedy viola, with my husband Brian on his early cello, & 2 dear violin friends Angela & Naomi, Angela an exceptionally beautiful musician for an amateur, we used to play the 2nd movement only as it was the only one the 3 less able of us could manage. In my mind we sounded just like this. There was so much love in the room. For Haydn, for the music and for each other. My beloved husband now 18 years deceased. Frequent contact lost with the two violins. But the music still sounds on triumphant from 250+ years in the past. Haydn was and still is my favourite composer. A superstar in London, Paris & Vienna and the most famous composer in Europe in his lifetime. Still composing in his 70s. I'm now in my 70s & can only marvel. The most famous composer in Europe in his lifetime.
Helen Dowland
What a lovely comment.
Your quite right, this is a fine performance of a very early quartet, in fact it’s astonishing the quality given how it pre-dates virtually every known work in the form.
For those with ears to hear, Haydn is indeed worth a lifetime’s study; a very great composer indeed whose 68 string quartets are truly one of the greatest pinnacles of western classical music.
Haydn is a second, truly great companion.
@@elaineblackhurst1509thank you Elaine. 💗
Yes, it brings me nostalgia, too; I first heard this piece from the Baby Einstein video Discovering Shapes in the oval scene.
What a wonderful composer Haydn was! He brings such joy to our hearts!! May many be enchanted by this wonderful quartet...just one of many great ones!!!
I love it as I am watching how the brilliant string players interlocking among themselves making beautiful music from Haydn in 5 movements! Thank you for sharing!
This first Quartet by Vater Haydn has an Adagio with so tuneful Sonority ❤
An outstanding performance of this early masterwork from Joseph Haydn. Bravo!
It really is remarkable that Haydn was producing work of this quality so early in the history of the string quartet.
The ten very early ‘divertimento a quattro’ quartets (Opera 0, 1, and 2) were written probably between 1754 and 1757, so to give a musical context, around the time of Mozart’s birth.
Where Haydn then took the quartet set a benchmark by which almost every serious composer to the present day has been judged.
A beautiful, committed performance of one of the ten pre-Opus 9 quartets, which like all this composer’s works, whatever period they are from, are well worth programming.
If you listen to Franz Xaver Richter, Michael Haydn (the authentic works, MH 319, 299, 316, and the string quintets), Franz Ignaz von Beecke, etc, you realize Haydn's "developments" are not really that special. The guy actually is too happy all the time in comparison to those.
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This simplistic and misguided caricature of Haydn’s art is so ridiculous as to require no comment other than to point it out as such.
The Zagreb Quartet exists from 1919, almost 100 years playing music, the members are not the same indeed.
Я просто в восторге. Я так люблю именно эти ранные квартеты Гайдена. Спасибо, квартет из Цагариба и спасибо за запись.
Beautiful, thanks for posting.
With each of the composers I adore I have chosen to begin at the begining- as far as Opus number. This is my first listen to this and whether it is too fast or what I cannot say, though, what I can say is Bravo! I really dug this; well done Zagreb Quartet and Holy Wow Maestro Hayden.
Love, Laughter, Love
Whoops- Typo- Haydn
This is a funny way of experiencing new composers' music! Thanks for sharing.
@@hippotropikas5374 I agree :D
Cuando yo estudiaba clarinete, lo tocaba en este cuarteto. No todo, pero lo amé de inmediato. Grandes recuerdos!
solid and energetic thank you
haydnhad perfect understanding
cuanto mas lo escucho, más me gusta...
The first violin has a lovely sweet tone.
Beautiful
👏🏻❤️🙏🏻…just to add that my 🐈⬛cat was totally fixated on the sound of my (borrowed) tenor viol, when she ignores the sound of the cello!
Bravo!!!
No disrespect I really like this but why the extremely fast tempo? Honest question thank you.
Bravo.
oh god! tha adagio ...
el primer cuarteto de la historia
too fast I think but it´s a great performance anywhere
Only for the 1st mvt.
Way too fast
RCM Music History 9 gang
BE MUSIC PLAYLIST VIEWERS:
5th movt only.
What?
If you are viewing this video on my playlist entitled "Baby Einstein Music In Original Format", I added this video for the 5th movement only.
What does "baby einstein music" mean please?
Movement 5.
@@needleboy17 yeah have you ever heard of abbreviations
13:51 is super familiar
Oliver Sacks brought me here
If you listen to Franz Xaver Richter, Michael Haydn (the authentic works, MH 319, 299, 316, and the string quintets), Franz Ignaz von Beecke, etc, you realize Haydn's "developments" are not really that special. The guy actually is too happy all the time in comparison to those.
Ich werde Buchenberg Schule kaputt machen mit Frau Lindgreen