List of piano music works by Joseph Haydn

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Joseph Haydn's contribution toclassical piano music is very significant in both qualitative and quantitative terms. However, the reception of his works today lags behind that of Mozart and Beethoven .

Piano sonatas

Joseph Haydn wrote around 60 piano sonatas, the first for harpsichord or clavichord and the later ones for piano (pianoforte).

The early sonatas (before 1766)

  • Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: 1
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Menuet
  • Sonata in B flat major, Hob.XVI: 2
1. Moderato
2. Largo
3. Menuet
  • Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: 3
1. Allegretto
2. Andante
3. Menuet
  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: 4
1. Allegro
2. Menuet
  • Sonata in A major, Hob.XVI: 5
1. Allegro
2. Menuet
3. Presto
  • Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI: 6
1. Allegro
2. Minuet
3. Adagio
4th finale: Allegro molto
  • Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: 7
1. Allegro moderato
2. Menuet
3rd final: Allegro
1. Allegro
2. Menuet
3. Andante
4. Allegro
  • Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI: 9
1. Allegro
2. Menuet
3. Scherzo: Allegro
  • Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: 10
1. Moderato
2. Menuet
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI: 11
1. Presto
2. Andante
3. Menuet
  • Sonata in A major, Hob.XVI: 12
1. Andante
2. Menuet
3rd final
  • Sonata in E major, Hob.XVI: 13
1. Moderato
2. Menuet
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: 14
1. Allegro moderato
2. Menuet
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI: 16
1. Andante
2. Menuet
3. Presto
  • Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI: G1
1. Allegro
2. Minuetto
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: D1
1st theme and 3 variations
2. Menuet
3rd final

Individual sonatas from 1766–1772

  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XIV: 5 (fragment)
1. Moderato
2. Menuet
  • Sonata in B flat major, Hob.XVI: 18
1. Allegro moderato
2. Moderato
  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: 19
1. Moderato
2. Andante
3rd finale: Allegro assai
  • Sonata in G minor, Hob.XVI: 44
1. Moderato
2. Allegretto
  • Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI: 45
1. Moderato
2. Andante
3rd finale: Allegro di molto
  • Sonata in A flat major, Hob.XVI: 46
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in E minor, Hob.XVI: 47
1. Adagio
2. Allegro
3rd finale: Tempo di Menuet

Six Sonatas op.13 for Prince Nikolaus Esterházy (1773)

  • Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: 21
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in E major, Hob.XVI: 22
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante
3rd finale: Tempo di Menuet
  • Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI: 23
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: 24
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI: 25
1. Moderato
2. Tempo di Menuet
  • Sonata in A major, Hob.XVI: 26
1. Allegro moderato
2. Menu et al Rovescio
3rd final: Presto

Six Sonatas op.14 (1776)

  • Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI: 27
1. Allegro con brio
2. Menuet
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI: 28
1. Allegro moderato
2. Menuet
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI: 29
1. Moderato
2. Adagio
3. Tempo di Menuet
  • Sonata in A major, Hob.XVI: 30
1. Allegro
2. Tempo di Menuet
  • Sonata in E major, Hob.XVI: 31
1. Moderato
2. Allegretto
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in B minor, Hob.XVI: 32
1. Allegro moderato
2. Menuet
3rd final: Presto

Individual sonatas from 1776–1783

  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: 33 (until 1778)
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Tempo di Menuet
  • Sonata in E minor, Hob.XVI: 34 (approx. 1781/82)
1. Presto
2. Adagio
3. Vivace molto
  • Sonata in A flat major, Hob.XVI: 43 (until 1783)
1. Moderato
2. Menuet I
3. Menuet II
4th rondo: Presto

Six sonatas op.30 dedicated to Miss Katharina and Marianna Auenbrugger (1780)

  • Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: 35
1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio
3rd final: Allegro
  • Sonata in C sharp minor, Hob.XVI: 36
1. Moderato
2. Scherzando: Allegro con brio
3. Menuet: Moderato
  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: 37
1. Allegro con brio
2. Largo e sostenuto
3rd final: Presto ma non troppo
  • Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI: 38
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio
3rd final: Allegro
  • Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI: 39
1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio
3. Prestissimo
  • Sonata in C minor, Hob.XVI: 20 (partly composed as early as 1771)
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante con moto
3rd final: Allegro

Three sonatas for Princess Marie Esterházy (1784)

  • Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI: 40
1. Allegretto e innocente
2. Presto
  • Sonata in B flat major, Hob.XVI: 41
1. Allegro
2. Allegro di molto
  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: 42
1. Andante con espressione
2. Vivace assai

Two sonatas (around 1790)

  • Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: 48 (composed for Ch. G. Breitkopf)
1. Andante con espressione
2nd rondo: Presto
  • Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI: 49 (composed for Maria Anna Edle by Genzinger)
1. Allegro
2. Adagio e cantabile
3rd final: Tempo di Minuet

Three English Sonatas (1794)

  • Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI: 52 (composed for Therese Jansen-Bartolozzi)
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3rd final: Presto
  • Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI: 50 (composed for Therese Jansen-Bartolozzi)
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Allegro molto
  • Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI: 51
1. Andante
2nd final: Presto

Divertimenti for piano with accompaniment

  • Hob.XIV: 1 E flat major (before 1766)
  • Hob.XIV: 2 F major (before 1769)
  • Hob.XIV: 3 in C major (around 1767)
  • Hob.XIV: 4 in C major (1764)
  • Hob.XIV: 5 in D major (before 1766)
  • Hob.XIV: 6 G major (before 1767)
  • Hob.XIV: 7 in C major (before 1766)
  • Hob.XIV: 8 in C major (before 1766)
  • Hob.XIV: 9 in F major (before 1766)
  • Hob.XIV: 10 in C major (1764)
  • Hob.XIV: 11 in C major (1760)
  • Hob.XIV: 12 in C major (before 1766)
  • Hob.XIV: 13 G major (1767)
  • Other dubious works: Hob.XIV: C1 / C2 (1767) / C3 / Es1 / F1 / F2 / G1 (1774)

Piano duos Hob. XVa / Piano trios Hob.XV

see: List of chamber music works by Haydn

Pieces for piano solo

Piano variations

  • 20 Variations in A major, Hob.XVII: 2 (1765)
  • 5 Variations in D major, Hob.XVII: 7 (1766)
  • Andante with variations in F minor Hob.XVII / 6 (1793)
  • 12 Variations in E flat major, Hob.XVII: 3 (1770/74)
  • 6 Variations in C major, Hob.XVII: 5 (1790)
  • 4 variations in G major on “Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser”, Hob.XVII: Appendix (1797) Piano version of the set of variations from the string quartet op. 76 No. 3

Capriccios

Dances

The following dances are originally orchestral works; all of the transcriptions for the piano are by Haydn himself.

  • 12 minuets, Hob.IX: 3 (1767)
  • 12 minuets, Hob.IX: 8 (1785)
  • 12 minuets, Hob.IX: 11 (1792)
  • 12 German Dances, Hob.IX: 12 (1792)
  • March in E flat major Hob.VIII: 1
  • March in C major Hob.VIII: 2
  • Contretance in D major Hob.XXXIc: 17b

Pieces for piano four hands

  • Sonata in F major Hob.XVIIa: 1 "Il maestro e lo scolare" (1778)
1. Andante
2. Tempo di Menuetto
  • Partita in F major Hob.XVIIa: 2 (misspelling: does not come from Haydn)

Other works

  • Adagio in F major, Hob.XVII: 9 (1785). From the collection "Différentes petites pièce faciles et agréables", published by Artaria in Vienna in 1786. For this, Haydn arranged nine movements from symphonies and open and added an original composition as the tenth piece, namely this Adagio. Proof (and first publication of this collection) in: J oseph Haydn. Piano pieces and works for piano four hands , ed. by Sonja Gerlach, Munich: Henle, 2006 ( Joseph Haydn Works , published by the Joseph Haydn Institute Cologne, Series XIX / XX)

Piano concerts (concerts for organ or harpsichord)

Evidence of the dating: Joseph Haydn. Concerts for organ (harpsichord) and orchestra , ed. by Horst Walter and Bettina Wackernagel, Munich: Henle, 1983 ( Joseph Haydn Works , Series XV, Volume 2) and after Volume XV / 1 of the Complete Edition (in preparation)

  • Organ Concerto in C major, Hob.XVIII: 1 (Haydn's autograph subsequently dated 1756)
1. Allegro moderato
2. Largo
3. Allegro molto
  • Organ Concerto in D major, Hob.XVIII: 2 (around 1760) Passed on as a harpsichord concerto
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio
3. Allegro
1. Allegretto
2. Largo
3. Presto
1 Allegro moderato
2. Adagio
3. Rondo Presto
  • Organ Concerto in C major, Hob.XVIII: 5 (before 1763). Handed down as a harpsichord concerto
1. Moderato (or Allegro moderato)
2. Andante
3. Allegro
  • Concerto for solo violin, organ and strings in F major, Hob.XVIII: 6 (1756 or later). Passed down as a concert with violin and harpsichord, but originally intended with an organ
1. Allegro moderato
2. Largo
3. Allegro
  • Concerto in F major, Hob.XVIII: 7 (arrangement of a piano trio not by Haydn)
1. Moderato
2. Adagio
3. Allegro
  • Organ Concerto in G major, Hob.XVIII: 8 (before 1766)
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio
3rd finale, Allegro
  • Concerto in G major, Hob.XVIII: 9 (before 1767)
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Tempo di Menuetto
  • Organ Concerto (?) In C major, Hob.XVIII: 10 (before 1771). It is questionable whether it is an organ concert
1. (without tempo mark)
2. Adagio
3. Allegro
1. Vivace
2. Un poco Adagio
3. Rondo all'Ungarese. Allegro assai
  • More concerts
Partly not authentic, not by Haydn or dubious: Hob.XVIII: Es1 / F1 / F2 / F3 / G1 / G2 .

Editions of works (selection)

  • Joseph Haydn, Complete Piano Works in 5 Volumes. Koenemann Music, Budapest.

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