Symphony No. 42 (Haydn)
Symphony by Joseph Haydn
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The Symphony No. 42 in D major, Hoboken I/42, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. The symphony was composed by 1771. It is scored for two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, and strings.
The work is in four movements:
The first movement "is marked by the lively acciaccature that appear in the first bar."[1] Generally in this period, the winds were tacet for the slow movement, and here they are silent at first, but they come in later.[1] The last movement has been described as a "novel use of the rondo form,"[2] and H. C. Robbins Landon even goes so far as to call it a "characteristic Haydnesque rondo" and perhaps the first such rondo,[3] though others point out that it is not the sonata rondo that has come to be associated with Haydn.[4] Poundie Burstein has discussed Haydn's use of cadence in this symphony.[5]
