St Anthony Divertimento
Franz Joseph Haydn (trans. Wilcox)
General Info
Year: 1780-1800 / 1965
Duration: c. 11:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Wind Octet
Publisher: G. Schirmer
Cost: Score and Parts - $60.00 | Score Only - $7.50
Movements
1. Allegro con Spirito
2. St. Anthony Chorale
3. Minuetto
4. Rondo
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Horn in E-flat I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This transcription of a suite for an octet of wind instruments adds a fascinating composition to the repertoire of the modern concert band. Between 1780 and 1800, Haydn wrote, and later revised, this most famous of six Feldpartiten (suites to be played in the open) for the military band of Prince Esterhazy. It was originally for two oboes, two horns, three bassoons, and a serpent -- an obsolete bass cornet built in the shape of a snake. The second movement is an adaptation of an old Austrian pilgrims' song, and was used by Brahms nearly 100 years later as the theme for the Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Opus 56.
Karl Geiringer, in Haydn, A Creative Life in Music, pointed out the close melodic relationships among the four movements: three of them really are variations on the second movement, the St. Anthony Choral. In form and style the four movements follow the traditional classical symphony except that the work is technically unpretentious and comparatively short.
- Program Note from Program Notes for Band
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State Ratings
- Alabama: Class B
- Florida: IV
- Louisiana: IV
- Maryland: IV
- North Carolina: IV
- Tennessee: III
Performances
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- Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.) Park Band (Michael L. Wirgler, conductor) - 20 July 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Menuetto (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Glover) (1795/2019)
- Trumpet Concerto (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ring) (1796/2021)
All Wind Works
- Achieved Is the Glorious Work (arr. Miller) (1798/1965/2005)
- Allegretto from "Symphony No. 100" (arr. Cipolla) (1794/)
- Allegro from Concerto in C (Percussion Nonet) (arr. Coley) (1761–65/)
- Allegro from Concerto in C (Percussion Quintet) (arr. Coley) (1761–65/)
- Andante (arr. Barnes) (1988)
- Armida Overture (arr. Bowles) (1784/1977)
- Chorale Saint Antoni (tr. Tolmage) (1953)
- Classical Suite for Piano and Band (with Mozart; arr. Curnow) (2006)
- Concerto for Bb Cornet or Trumpet (arr. Duthoit) (1796/1948)
- Concerto for Oboe (arr. Monson)
- Concerto for Trumpet in Eb Major (arr. Rumbelow) (1796/1999)
- Concerto for Trumpet in Eb Major (arr. Laverty) (1796)
- Concerto in C Major (arr. Zorn) (c. 1790 / )
- Concerto No 2 for Horn and Winds (arr. Bushouse)
- Derbyshire Cavalry Marches (arr. Hash and Walters) (1794/1995)
- Divertimentos in C Major
- Divertimentos in D Major
- Divertimentos in G Major
- Gypsy Rondo (arr. Marlatt) (1795/2016)
- Horn Concerto No 1 in D
- Haydn Symphony No. 11: Second Movement (tr. Holmes) (1760-62/1935)
- Hungarian National March (arr. Landon) (1802/1960)
- London Trio No. 3
- Lux Prima (arr. Ford) (1791/2008)
- March for the Prince of Wales
- Marche Regimento de Marshall
- Marches for the Derbyshire Cavalry Regiment
- Menuetto (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Glover) (1795/2019)
- Military Symphony (tr. Tobani) (1794/1896)
- Octet in F Major (1802)
- Orlando Paladino Overture (arr. de Rubertis) (1782/1938)
- Overture Militaire (arr. Skornicka) (1794/1938)
- Partita in E-flat (ed. Colnot) (1760-1767)
- Partita in F see: Partita for Winds in F major by Wranitzky
- St Anthony Divertimento (tr. Wilcox) (1956)
- Symphony No. 100 (tr. Tobani). See: Military Symphony
- Symphony No. 100: Second Movement (arr. Posch) (1794/)
- Symphony No. 100: Third Movement (arr. Johnson). See: Third Movement from "Symphony No. 100"
- Theme and Variations from Symphony No 94 (arr. Marcus)
- Third Movement from "Symphony No. 100" (arr. Johnson) (1794/)
- Trumpet Concerto (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ring) (1796/2021)
- Two Classic Miniatures (with Hummel; arr. Williams) (1991)
Resources
- Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 275.
- Haydn, F.; Wilcox, J. (1965). St. Anthony Divertimento [score]. G. Schirmer: New York.