Haydn

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani places Haydn, with Mozart and Beethoven, in the First Viennese School, and makes him the first master of classicism, father of the symphony and of the string quartet12. He credits him with a break carried out "courteously": Haydn is the first to depart from Baroque metric continuity and the basso continuo, to give the sonata form with two conflicting themes its first masterpieces, and to express modern unease34. These breaks open onto Beethoven, his pupil, who systematizes the sonata form56. Haydn also defined the code that Mozart subverts; as an admirer of Mozart, he tells Mozart's father that his son is the greatest artist of all time. Pagani sees in the London Symphonies the "city sky" of a future that is becoming livable7. He also notes that the German anthem comes from a quartet, a most intimate form, and mentions Gould's recording of Haydn's sonatas.

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