Hadyn Concerto in G Major No 2

Composer

Franz Joseph Haydn

Key

G Major

Nationality

Austrian


Time Signature

4/4

Annotation

Movement I

Key: G Major

Range: A3-E6

Tempo: Allegro Moderato

Left Hand
  • 1st – 4th positions
  • Trills on quarter notes, and eighth notes
  • Sixteenth note triplet double-stops
    • Fingered 5ths
    • Top note holds eighth note – bottom notes play triplet on changing pitches
  • Chromatic passages
  • Arpeggiated chords in triplet sixteenth notes
Bowing
  • Lourré
  • Brushed Spiccato
  • Detaché lancé
  • Up-Bow Staccato
  • Accented Detaché
  • Triplet, slur string crossings
Rhythm
  • Sixteenth triplets
  • 32nd note runs – D Scale
  • Some syncopation – sixteenths, quarter, eighth

*Cadenza technics depend on the edition you use.

 

Preview spots:

 

m. 31 – 32 – rhythm understanding beat divisions and changing rhythmic values quickly – 32nds, 8ths, quarters, 16ths 

m. 56-58 – eighth note trills with resolution and staying steady.

m. 61-64 – fingered double stops.

 

Movement II

Key: C Major

Time Signature: 3/4

Range: G3-G6

Tempo: Adagio

Left Hand
  • Trills on quarter notes, and eighth notes
  • Sixteenth note triplet double-stops
    • Fingered 5ths
    • Top note holds eighth note – bottom notes play triplet on changing pitches
  • Arpeggiated chords in triplet sixteenth notes
Bowing
  • Lourré
  • Up-Bow Staccato
  • Accented Detaché
  • Double stop triplet slurs
Rhythm
  • Sixteenth triplets
  • 32nd note runs – D Scale
  • Some syncopation – sixteenths, quarter, eighth

*Cadenza technics depend on the edition you use.

Movement III

Key: G Major

Time Signature: 2/4

Range: G3-D6

Tempo: Allegro

Left Hand
  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd position
  • Trills on dotted eighth notes and quarters
  • In Bariolage passages
    • 3rd and 2nd position
    • Static finger is on E string and changing fingers are on A string.
Bowing
  • Accented Detaché
  • Spiccato
  • Bariolage
  • Double stops with lower note as a droning open string and slurred for whole measure. Each bow begins with an accent.
  • Eighth notes slurred in groups of two from “&” to beat. Bowing pattern continues slurring over barlines.
  • Rapid Detaché sixteenth notes
  • Quarter tied to eighth note over the barline. And then hooked to eighth. 
Rhythm
  • Syncopation of eighths and quarters
  • Ties over the bar line 

Recording

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look inside Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Major Hob. VIIa:4 Violin and Piano. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Edited by Heinz Lohmann and Gunter Thomas. Sheet Music. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. ABRSM syllabus Grade: 8 -- TCL 2016 Grade: 8. Classical. Softcover Piano Reduction. 36 pages. G. Henle #HN448. Published by G. Henle (HL.51480448).
look inside Violin Concerto In G Major Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Edited by Ferdinand Kuechler. Violin & Piano. Classical Period. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull-out violin part). With solo part and piano reduction. Hob. VIIa: 4. 28 pages. Edition Peters #EP4182. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP4182).

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