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Masterpieces of Western Music

Humanities W1123 · Prof. Michael Thaddeus

Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)




String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 33, No. 2, "The Joke" (16'45)
performed by the Kodály Quartet


I: Allegro moderato (4'48)


II: Scherzo (3'42)


III: Largo e sostenuto (4'38)


IV: Finale (3'37)
Czar Paul I of Russia, to whom this quartet was dedicated


Piano Sonata in A major Hob. XVI:26 (8'13)
played by Leif Ove Andsnes


Finale from Symphony No. 88 in G major (3'46)
performed by the London Mozart Players conducted by Jane Glover

Or, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic "conducted" by Leonard Bernstein