Die Jahreszeiten
The Seasons Hob. XXI :3
URTEXT
Edited by Armin Raab
Libretto by Gottfried van Swieten
BA 4647
Score in two parts, cloth
Volume I c. € 185.00
Volume II c. € 258.00
(Volumes from the Complete Edition Joseph Haydn Works, published by G. Henle Verlag, Munich)
Wind set c. &euro: 89.00
Strings each c. € 13.95
Piano reduction by A. E. Müller
Vocal score* (Ger/Eng/Fr)
BA 4647a € 13.95
Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons was composed directly after the first successful performances of The Creation. The Seasons has however been greatly overshadowed by The Creation for a long time and yet this work has far greater changes of style between popular Singspiel and great oratorio than The Creation. The Seasons continues to impress and remains part of the core repertoire to the present with its overwhelming richness of musical character and its immense formal variety. Scarcely another oratorio is able to so captivate an audience with such variety.