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Joseph Haydn
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By Alex Knudson
The classical period brought many changes to Western Music. Gone were the days of thick and complex polyphonic textures(1). The new classical style instead focused on short periodic melodies(2). These melodies featured a light accompaniment that was meant to make the music more appealing to all nationalities thereby entertaining all listeners(3). One of the best examples of this light and entertaining music style is chamber music, particularly the string quartet. As noted in the Oxford New Grove Dictionary, “with the exception of the accompanied sonata, the quartet was probably the most widely cultivated genre of ‘chamber music’.”(4) The quartet epitomized the classical style of refined and nuanced music(5). The quartet was unique because, unlike in other musical genres, within the four-part string texture all four parts are equal and they interact intimately with each other(6), although absolute equality of the voices rarely exists in the very earliest quartets(7). When studying the rise of the string quartet, there is no composer more influential than Joseph Haydn.
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was one of the most influential composers in the 18th century. Known as the first of the “Viennese Classicists”(8), Haydn was a prolific composer in eve
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Despite the 1516 woodcut shown above which depicts Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen1 playing as a string quartet, it is Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) who is generally credited with having established the string quartet. Previous composers had written works for two violins, a viola and a cello, but it was Haydn who was to impose upon the quartet the classical form which gave it so much potential.
Before Haydn, Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) had composed works for two violins, a viola and a cello, but they were different in style, with the cello supplying the traditional accompaniment role of the "basso continuo" and they failed to inspire further works. Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c.1700-1775) also had previously composed several such works but while they were freer from the constraints of the "basso continuo" they lacked Haydn's classical structure. But even in his early works before his ideas about form had become established Haydn denied that these composers influenced him, rather he credited Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88) as a source of inspiration. Although C.P.E. Bach never composed a string quartet, but Haydn's compositions do indeed show the same innovative irregularitie