Symphony No. 95 in c minor

Composer: HAYDN, Joseph
  • This is one of Haydn’s London Symphonies (Nos.93-104). He composed it for the 1791 concert season in London.1 
  • This symphony premiered in April or May of 1791, in the Hanover Square Rooms in London.2
  • Listen for: many short solos for instruments of the orchestra (including one for violin in the first movement, written for violinist Johann Peter Salomon, the impresario who had brought Haydn to London).3

Sources

  1. Georg Feder and James Webster, “Haydn, (Franz) Joseph,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed September 1, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044593.
  2. Richard Wigmore, “Symphony No. 95 in C minor, Hob I:95,” Hyperion, accessed September 1, 2021, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/tw.asp?w=W927
  3. Ibid.

Cut IDs

11845 45111