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Haydn - String Quartet in D Minor "Fifths" - Mov. 3-4/4

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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)

String Quartet in D minor "Fifths" Hob III:76 Op. 76 No. 2

3. Menuetto: Allegro ma non troppo "Witches' Minuet"

4. Vivace assai

Performed by Quator Mosaiques

*This quartet is known as Quinten (or Fifths) which refers to the falling perfect fifths that start the quartet.

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Uploader Comments (HARMONICO101)

  • Which painting is this? It is Dutch?

  • "Dutch fishing boats in a storm" by Joseph Mallord William (1801).

  • it means that it is loud and low.

  • It's loud becuase it's supposed to be loud, and the reason it is low is becuase it is being played on period intruments in period style.

    Obviously not your cup of tea.....

  • sounds pretty strange to me. Cause, it is pretty loud and weird. =|.

  • Well what is that supposed to mean?

Top Comments

  • Anybody who thinks of Haydn as a second rate composer compared to Mozart, should try to listen to this music.

  • Turn your speakers down if it's too "loud"...

    Try sprouting a brain cell if it's too "weird".

    =)

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  • superb!!! that's the perfect tempo!

  • @HARMONICO101 his tea is Lipton; We're more the Numi kind.

  • @najika852 It starts at 3:24

  • I'm surprised by the bad reactions to the comments saying it is loud... It actually is ! Haydn wrote it this way, the composition has similitudes with the german "ländler", a rustic dance, very popular in the XVIIth century. All the menuetto is particularily heavy, and we can hear the musicians love to insist a lot. Personally I love this :)

  • It's always very refreshing to get to listen to a brilliantly written piece of classical music written by a genius and then look at fine art at the same time.

  • @Dashnavarr Right.

  • @HARMONICO101 Joseph Mallord William TURNER. Famous British landscape painter, noted for his moody, stormy sea-scapes (as here). Excellent choice, however, for a dark, minor-scale work as this one.

  • Sounds like variations... Such an underrated composer... Importance has still not been fully recognised in my view...

  • Excellent! I never heard it before. This piece reminds me of the Three Witches'dance in Shakespeare's Macbeth when they prophecy him his future and put in their cauldron hideous contents ( a liver from a Jew, a finger from a strangled babe, wolf's tooth ,ect.) Its finale also is magnificent, with its merry ending.

  • What a wacky menuetto.

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