Joseph Haydn's Instrumental Music

Joseph Haydn’s historic role helped perfect the new instrumental music of the late eighteenth century. In his late symphonies he expanded the size of his orchestra’s. Hayden also put greater emphasis on the brass and the clarinet, which was new to the orchestra.
Haydn is an Austrian composer who worked under patronage of the Esterházy court. Haydn composed over a hundred symphonies through his entire career. He is especially popular for the twelve symphonies in 1790s in England. Known as the London Symphonies or Salomon Symphonies. Haydn’s symphonies and his quartets are the spiritual birthplace of Beethoven’s style.
His best-known symphonies is number sixty nine (Surprise) in G major; which one of his twelve works composed for his concert

in London. The orchestra presented these compositions consisted of about forty members. Surprise opens with a reflective slow introduction followed by a forceful Vivace assai in sonata allegro form. Surprise was authorized for production in a London concert series; its second movement is a theme and variations based on a simple though notable theme.
Haydn also composed church music. His church music included some sixty-eight string quartets, piano trios, and divertimentos. His fourteen masses form the core of his output in this repertory. The Creation one of his oratorios is based on the biblical book of Genesis and the poem Paradise written by John Milton. He also based another work that is based on English literature called the Seasons.
Haydn is famous for his expertise in the development of Classical instrumental music, especially the symphony and the string quartet.