Joseph Haydn String Quartet op 76/3 'emperor' in C-major (mov 2/4) Poco Adagio cantabile

[yurianne07]

why is it on the right the russian national anthem shows up???

[JasmineJean89]

German national anthem :)

[MarcusHK1]

While I find the use of period instruments fine in baroque music, I'm rather reluctant to it for the classical period such as Haydn. To my ears it gives it a slightly rough sound which contradicts its classicism.

[jerryvalez]

this second movement is downright miraculous 

[ReadMyName13]

This is why he was called " The Father of String Quartet "

[bobddu1]

this is ok

[markusboyd3]

@bobddu1 ok?? are you absolutely madd!!???

[trooubermensch]

Aside from the vast amounts of idiocy in these comments,

Can anyone tell me who the conductor was and what orchestra is performing this actual piece used in this video?

[epaburke]

Haydn did not write the German national anthem, nor did he steal it to write this piece. Get your years in a row. Austria and Germany were not one country in Haydn's time, either. If you don't know your history any better than that, could you at least please refrain from writing comments as if you did? What's playing in this clip is a musical piece written by Haydn. More than 100 years later,someone used part of the melody for the national anthem of Nazi Germany-a state which no longer exists.

[nyo267n]

@epaburke But more than 100 years later adapted *exactly* this melody (the "main theme" heard as the first, "non-varation" variation here) and combined it with the lyrics. Besides, this melody was chosen as the national anthem before the nazis and it still, long after the fall of nazi Germany, the national hymn, no?

However I guess that you're trying to point out that this in no way is a nazi song, and with that I completely agree.

[TheCyruslau]

Germany anthem is a great song

[jadamink]

In love :) That simple!

[etpenusee]

haydn wrote this for the national anthem and it's a hymn now and I guess he used it for a string quartet too

[duongngocvuminh]

Haydn stolen the German anthem to wrote this piece,thumbs up if you don't agree XDXDXD

[LudwigZhi]

Does anyone know how the Haydn catalogue works? I understand the Hoboken-Verzeichnis but what about the Opus system? The last quartet, which was composed in 1803, was only opus 103, so clearly this is not the usual Opus system that the composer himself keeps in chronological order. Is it more like the BWV system?

[trooubermensch]

@LudwigZhi BWV is a German system of cataloguing any work by Bach, and would translate to English as The Cited Works of Bach. For Haydn, in this same German system, it would be an HWV number. As far as Opus numbers are concerned, they're a poor indication of what to go by because even within an individual artist, there is no regularity. Some artists use them to classify type of work (everything Op 1 may be quartet for example), or an op number may refer to work for a specific person.

[tekinozbek]

@trooubermensch Yes, this is right. Opus numbers are somewhat "publishing" numbers. Op. X may be just one quartet, it may also be a set of 6 quartets, whereas Kirkpatrick, Hoboken, BWV and Kochel catalogues provide a much detailed archive.

[trooubermensch]

This piece is Op. 76 (referring to string quartet work for Hungarian Count Joseph Erdödy - there's six separate works that fall under this). This video is the second movement of the third one. By itself, outside of Haydn's own Op. cataloguing, it's "String Quartet 62 in C Major." This is what you'll want to go by for a more accurate look chronologically. As far as I know, Haydn doesn't have his own scientific (third-party) system like Bach (BWV).

[Bytorand1]

deustchland deustchland uber alles

[nonnopirro52]

@Bytorand1 Deustchland? Deutschland!!

[Bytorand1]

@nonnopirro52 sorry :P

[spinoza1111]

A man who is "refined" Never uses the word For History has a Mind, And has horror shown us, and the croak of the black bird. To call classical music "beautiful" Is at one and the same time, True, and something of shit that is full. After the first death there is no other, mah brother. And after the Holocaust can we write a poem, home? Well, I'm doin' that, I guess, So as I seek to be forgiven, as I seek to be blessed, Y'all can talk that sugary talk. All the best.

[spinoza1111]

Jungle Zeit! But I don't think Germany features such a Tropic vista. And when Germany tried to conquer such vistas, it was a disaster.

Oops, of course, Haydn was an Austrian. Germany and Austria never had einigkeit: too much bad feeling after the Thirty Years War, Britian would have had a FIT had Bismarck ingested Osterreich, about the Anschluss wovon Mann nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss Mann schweigen, and today, Germany's constitution forbids ANY expansion of its borders.

[mal4mac]

Don't like the words? Change the words! Like the Sex Pistols did with the Brit. anthem: "God save the Queen, a fascist regime..."

[knight890015]

beautiful song from the hearth of germany

[juanmlleras]

@knight890015 Heart of Austria, you mean....

[parker77712]

@juanmlleras Austria is as German as Taiwan is China. :)

[jackycck2222]

so peaceful...

[edertables]

this is my favourite music,,, werry werry beautiful!!! nice

[caterina420]

beautiful!!!!!!



[hohertamrat]

It is really sad, that due to the Nazis, the real meanings of the words August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote got lost.



[Nascaram]

It's legally allowed to sing it, but you really shouldn't. Because people consider it to be National Socialist, though it isn't. It's just that we associate the worst period of our history with it, and we really don't like being reminded of it. Singing the first stanza comes close to social suicide.

[Nascaram]

@EvanC0912

Most people consider it offensive to sing the first or the second stanza. Only nationalists do, and their party (NPD) is known to be far right/Nazi. They've been banned a few times now, but it's against our constitution so at some point they always come back.

[anevia770]

@Nascaram @EvanC0912  -QU'EST CE QUE DISAIT SES STROPHES ,???

[MagicDolphinGO]

the first variation is so damn beautiful

[Nascaram]

@ChEr09Socials

It's still the same melody. We just stopped singing "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" and now sing only the 3rd stanza.

[EvanC0912]

@Nascaram

is it offensive to sing the first stanza?? or it can be sung anytime along with the last stanza.?

[anevia770]

@EvanC0912 -QU'EST CE QUE DISAIT SES STROPHES ,???

[seattleladt]

What a marvelous melody!! Cheers for Haydn! This is certainly an elegant piece and the playing is masterful

[jointedlimb]

bleh the cello isnt playing the real part. Cmon mate.

[harpsichordRB]

Excellent !

Wonderul definition of genesis of this quartet and german anthem.

Thank you for uploading.

[ppolo12]

Joseph Haydn String is Austrian and composed this this was the melody of the Austrian Anthem

"Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze"

[jcpressac]

@ppolo12 At Haydn's time Austria was a part of Germany in the same way as Bavaria, Baden, Bohemia, or Saxony - as an independent state within a loose construction called "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation".

[DIGIMONJK]

Calmest music I've heard in years. Mainly listening to it because I got to study Haydn for my grade 3 history...maybe you music geeks could provide some more information!

[BO1R1S1]

Actually the text was written by Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who was a German poet in the 19th century. There stille reigned the Kaiser of the Heiligen Römischen Reichs DN, but this "Reich" was split in many princedoms, so it wasn't sure what Germany and his identity really is. The poets in this epoch tried to answer this question in their own, surely patriotic way. (Their is also a quite famous poem, which is called "Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?)

[nicodagger]

Herr Lichtbroeder....Danke Sehr! or should I say "Tak"? But isn't it forbidden today in Germany to sing these lyrics, because of their "Nazi" association? If they predate the Nazis, why can't people sing them?

[BO1R1S1]

@nicodagger

i'm not sure if it is forbidden, but also the Germans don't like this stanza. Its original sense isn't bad, as i explained, but because of its misemployment by the nazis it has to be considered other way. Singing it, is definetly forbidden in Germany.

[donienarder]

@BO1R1S1 It is mainly because the text of the first stanza refers to the German cultural area in the 19th century (from Luxembourg "Maas" to the east of Prussia "Memel", from South Tyrol "Etsch" to the north of Schleswig "Belt").

Using that as a national anthem of the Federal Republic of Germany would be totally inappropriate because these geographic descriptions are located outside the FRG. Therefore only the 3rd stanza is the official national anthem: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit...

[SpritesRawesome]

poop

[SpritesRawesome]

mrs. silberman if you're reading this..hi

[SpritesRawesome]

Thsi song sucks

[Timrath]

@SpritesRawesome It's not a song, you illiterate buffoon.

[LazyGermanKid]

@Timrath it is a song if you think about it being a national anthem so think about how other may see it before you call people illiterate

[Timrath]

@LazyGermanKid Oh, but he is illiterate all right. Just read his comments and you'll understand why I said so.

[pwkid]

@LazyGermanKid I think a song is where the music is accompanied by singing.

[gjc82071]

I thought that was German's national anthem?

[lichtbroeder]

Haydn wrote this as "Gott Erhalte Franz Den Kaiser" (God Preserve Our Gracious Emperor) in tribute to the emperor of Austria. It was only adopted later as "Deutschland Uber Alles" by Germany, and was not even the original German national anthem.

[abcdefghijkl9898]

i love it

[MakaberesKind]

Die Melodie ist so wunderschön :)

[gianpaga11]

Melodia deliziosa! Bravissimi gli esecutori!

Grande genio!

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I nazisti non sono passati alla storia non solo per la loro efferata ferocia e inumanità, ma anche per

far razzia di ogni opera d'arte, compresa la musica di Haydn.

[nicodagger]

This melody, and not the Nazi words, of course, make the national anthem of Germany the world's most beautiful. Imagine if George Gershwin, or Aaron Coplemand has written the U.S. anthem...it would be much better.

[lichtbroeder]

@nicodagger

The lyrics to this tune as Deutschland Uber Alles (used by the Nazis) are not Nazi lyrics. They existed before Hitler's rise to power. "Uber Alles" doesn't mean "over all". It means, Germany first in our hearts, before all others.

[jimbarin]

It is a pity this piece of classical music, and the ancient Sanskrit svastika dating from the Neolithic period in the Indus Valley Civilization of the Indian Subcontinent, were perverted by the Nazis.

[frogbuster20]

Haydn is not my favorite composer but i belive his string quartets are one of the most unbelievable and refined pieces ever written

[MrTakatero]

@frogbuster20 I agree 100% with you, it's definitely beautiful and refined. Long live good taste.

[nyo267n]

@frogbuster20 Yeah! I believe that he himself considered this tune his masterpiece, and it was also the last piece he performed over and over again on his piano before he died (although it wasn't exactly these variations for a string quartet, but rather the original theme).

[mushanzhou]

@frogbuster20 Haydn is known as the father of the string quartet for a reason

[Stuckenmacht]

German overalls?

I had no idea I was wearing "Denim, denim, uber alles, uberalles" -- do they have death's head buttons?

[MagnaCassandra]

It is the national Anthem of Germany. I like it! It is so melodic! But I guess almost all national nathems are ;-)

[unclemonty89]

could be the best song

[crazymoffo]

The titanic sinking... ____/____

[Rocky1990]

that don look like germany...

[hognoxious]

Wherever it is, the probably invaded it at some point in history. Perhaps even twice.

[Effluitio]

It's very interesting, because the melody (do ti ti la so la so so fa mi) appears note by note also in the famous Alleluia composed by W. A. Mozart. If anybody knows the answer to this, please write me a mail! Thanks! :-)

[Timrath]

@Effluitio There's no significance to this similarity. That passage is just a common building block that you will find in many, many other pieces of that era, if you listen closely enough. That's the way they composed music back then (and still do today, actually). They used commonplace groups of notes and rearranged them in individual ways (afterall, that's what the word "compose" means).

Of course, that doesn't make them any less original. It's all about the way they arranged them.

[weichi6206]

好聽

[EliytresSkogUlv]

this is quite easy on violin...but the violin alone sounds strange... it's the best string quartet...vibrated and a bit melancholic...

[safa90safa]

the German national anthem

[BluezBro604]

Austria's

[617martingale]

Is that: German, German overalls?

[LazyGermanKid]

@safa90safa Also the Austrian national anthem i think, or some other country just diff words but being german i only remember it as that national anthem for sure

[ChEr09Socials]

@safa90safa

the previous German national anthem actually

[leporello56]

@ChEr09Socials Whats the new one?

[ChEr09Socials]

@leporello56

i actually don't have a clue LOL... i only know this fact because we are forced to learn this piece for Harmony 3 ^^

[ondesmartenot3]

my personal favorite of Haydn's works

thanks for posting!

[sonata1992]

Of all Haydn's works? :P