Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Hob.XVIII:4

Composer: HAYDN, Joseph
  • Haydn composed this keyboard concerto by 17711 or 1772.2 The work was originally intended for harpsichord and orchestra.3
  • Chronologically, this was probably Haydn’s 5th keyboard concerto, not his 4th.4
  • In the spring of 1784, Maria Theresia von Paradis performed this concerto at the Concert Spirituel in Paris (one of the earliest public concert series).5
    • Paradis was a composer and concert pianist and was visually impaired. Mozart also wrote his Piano Concerto B flat Major, K. 456 for her.6

Sources

  1. Georg Feder and James Webster, “Haydn, (Franz) Joseph,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 7, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044593.
  2. “Keyboard Concerto in G major, Hob.XVIII:4 (Haydn, Joseph),” IMSLP, accessed January 7, 2022, https://imslp.org/wiki/Keyboard_Concerto_in_G_major%2C_Hob.XVIII:4_(Haydn%2C_Joseph).
  3. Feder and Webster, “Haydn, (Franz) Joseph,” Grove Music Online.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Robert Wigmore, “Piano Concerto in G Major, Hob XVII:4,” Hyperion (2013), accessed January 7, 2022, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W14390_67925.
  6. Ibid.

Cut IDs

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