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Josef Haydn (1732-1809) String Quartet in C, Op 33 No 3 (The Bird) Allegro moderatoScherzo: Allegretto Adagio non troppoFinale: ondo !re"to

Haydn was the father of the string quartet. In the ourse of the fi!e years fro" 17#8to 1772$ his %0th year$ he &u'ished three sets of quartets the & 9$ 17 and 20$ inwhih the oder *i!erti"ento for" e!o!es into the true string quartet with free andinde&endent &arts. +he e,erise of "anufaturing no ess than 12# +rios for !ioa$eo and rine sterha/ys 'aryton during the &re!ious deade had shooedHaydn in writing for indi!idua string &arts inde&endent of an ao"&anyinghar&sihord. +his tehnia faiity$ his e,traordinary strutura genius$ and aontinuing "aturing of his reati!e &owers ha&&iy a"e together to &rodue in the& 20 quartets si, wors of re!outionary genius. ut then$ he wrote no "orequartets for a deade$ unti the & 33 set was &u'ished in 1782. ro'a'y a his

energies were used direting the "usi for 0 o&eras ( his own o"&ositions) and!arious "arionette &rodutions at the sterha/y &aae. Haydn announed the &33 set to &otentia su'sri'ers as 4'rand new # $uadro ... written in a new ands&eia way$ for I ha!e not o"&osed any for ten years4. 5ay'e a 'it of a o"e-onto re!i!e the "aret$ 'ut the new set are atogether "ore rea,ed and onfident thanthe & 20s with 6oey sher/i rather than "inuets$ ess 4tur" und *rang4$ "ore"a6or than "inor$ witty rondo finaes re&aing intense fugues.

+onights & 33 quartet$ 4+he ird4 has a these ha"ars of the new Haydn waywith quartets. ,&et the une,&eted. +he first "o!e"ent shows yet anotherharateristi of these 4new4 quartets Haydns a'iity to tae a s"a "otif ande,&and it throughout first the "o!e"ent$ and then the whoe quartet. +he first !ioinintrodues the "otif in the seond 'ar - a re&eated deorated with two singegrae notes and then a turn. :isten how these initiay si"&e deorations 'eo"eea'orated ; at one &oint the first !ioin stutters fi!e turns 'efore anding on thetarget. +he whoe "o!e"ent is ittered with grae notes designed to tri& the &ayersfingers. ut a with the har" of godfinhes<

 =though the seond "o!e"ent is "ared her/o$ the 6oe is that it is initiay soun6oey> a the instru"ents are on their ower strings so that$ as ?ose"ary Hughesre"ars$ 4nowhere ese$ &erha&s$ in a "usi does @ "a6or sound so dar4. ut

then we see that this goo" is in fat a foi for the 'irdy hir&ings of the first fidde inthe +rio ighty ao"&anied 'y the other !ioin. Just 0 'ars of genius<

+he =dagio has one of Haydns "ost goriousy e,tensi!e "eodies whose 30-odd'ars are si"&y &ayed three ti"es in !ariations that aso 'ring in those hir&y graenotes fro" the first "o!e"ent.

+he ?ondo is a 'oisterous ro"&$ fu of energy and une,&eted swer!es. Here theturn fro" the first "o!e"ent is ing ; transfor"ed into a four-note se"iqua!er figurewhih is tossed around a the &ayers 'efore finay disa&&earing &ianissi"o into the!ioa.

u'iation of the & 33 set oinided with 5o/arts arri!a in Aienna$ and ataysed

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hi" into returning to writing string quartets hi"sef$ eading to the wonderfu set of si,quartets that he dediated to Haydn. +hese quartets in turn sti"uated Haydn toontinue to de!eo& the quartet for".