Szőllősy Csila et al. (szerk.): Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis - Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. C. sorozat 46. (Székesfehérvár, 2018)

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Mikust BaJa%s: Joseph Haydn vonósnégyes-gyűjteménye

Balázs Mikusi

Joseph Haydn’s collection of string quartets

Joseph Haydn’s personal music library has been available for research for decades in the Music Collection of the National Széchényi Library but historians have so far primarily concentrated on the documents containing Haydn’s own works. By contrast, this study examines one of the most exciting groups of pieces by other authors, the quartet publications once owned by Haydn. The examined body contains a number of compositions dedicated to Haydn by a younger generation of composers although the remaining copies represent but a fraction of the quartets published with such dedications during the composer’s lifetime. In addition to these publications (which Haydn probably acquired as complimentary copies), the study primarily attempts to reveal the background of two prints that found their way to Haydn: the String Quartet in B-flat major by Franz Anton Hoffmeister probably documents a specific visit the composer-cum-publisher paid to Haydn, during which he commissioned his colleague to write a work (the would-be String Quartet in D minor, op. 42) for his chamber music series; while Johann Georg Albrechtsberger’s Sei quartetti con Fughe (op. 20) series may have inspired Haydn to publish six introductions and fugues selected from the oratories of Gregor Joseph Werner for string quartets.

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