- 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
- Read more about Haydn’s collaboration with Salomon on the page for Haydn’s Symphony No. 99.
Sources
- 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.
- 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.
- Ibid.
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11845 45111