Michael Haydn - Sonata for Violin and Viola in C (1783)

Johann Michael Haydn (14 September 1737 – 10 August 1806) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Franz Joseph Haydn. Excuses for the bit unclear score. The staff lines should’ve been enhanced. Duo for violin and viola No. 1 in C major, Perger 127, MH 335 (1783) 1. Allegro 2. Adagio (5:39) 3. Rondo con spirito (9:23) Ivan Pochekin & Mikhail Pochekin From the CD “The Unity of Opposites“. =dm_ws_sp_ps_dp# Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo commissioned Haydn to write six duos for violin and viola. Haydn fell ill after completing the fourth, so he asked Mozart to write the other two (K. 423 and K. 424). The set of six was presented as all Haydn’s, and Colloredo was unable to “detect in them Mozart’s obvious workmanship. In 1760 Michael Haydn was appointed Kapellmeister at Großwardein (today Oradea) and later, in 1762, was appointed concertmaster at Salzburg, where he remained for 44 years, during which he wrote over 360 compositions comprising both church and instrumental music. From their mutual sojourn in Salzburg, Haydn was acquainted with Mozart, who held his work in high esteem. Several of Michael Haydn’s works influenced Mozart. To give just three examples: the Te Deum “which Wolfgang was later to follow very closely in K. 141“;[13] the finale of the Symphony No. 23 which influenced the finale of the G major Quartet, K. 387; and the (fugal) transition and (nonfugal) closing theme of the G major second subject expositions of the finales of both Michael’s Symphony No. 29 (1784) and Mozart’s monumental last Symphony No. 41 (“Jupiter“) (1788), both in C major. Musicologist Karl Geiringer has claimed that Michael Haydn has not received the recognition he deserves from posterity. His church music, his choruses for male voices, and many of his instrumental works are on respectable level and ought to be revived.