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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Haydn's Surprise Symphony
Haydn often employed humor in his compositions, such as in the Surprise Symphony. In the second movement in variation-form, he shocked the audience by an abrupt fortissimo chord following a piano theme with the intention of providing something new in competition with a performing student of his.
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