HAYDN J. - SONATA MIb M URTEXT - HOB.XVI/49 = HVE1485

The Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:49 is one of the masterpieces among Joseph Haydn s sixty-or-so piano sonatas. It epitomises the Haydn sonata-type par excellence, with inner serenity and clarity, measured sobriety and having regard to its large and richly structured opening movement perfect form. For all that, Haydn did not neglect his feeling for individual special touches, seen here in the last movement, a graceful minuet in rococo style. The distinguished Haydn researcher Georg Feder has edited this Urtext edition; the fingerings by piano pedagogue Hans-Martin Theopold make it particularly valuable.