Joseph Haydn: Symphony Solos for double bass & piano (arr. Heyes)

About the Collection Symphony Solos brings together six double bass solos from Haydn’s Symphonies. Primarily in bass clef and aimed at the intermediate bassist, these short solos are ideal for study or concert use and introduce bassists to popular solos from the classical orchestral repertoire. The double bass, or more accurately the violone, was used as a soloist on a number of occasions in symphonies by Haydn. Nowadays usually played on a modern double bass tuned in fourths (GDAE), it is likely they were originally written for an instrument employing ‘Viennese tuning’ (AF#DAF) which was popular in and around Vienna from the early 1760s to the death of J.M. Sperger in 1812. Haydn’s ‘lost’ Double Bass Concerto in D major (1763) is one of the earliest works to use this tuning, alongside solo works by Dittersdorf, Vanhal, Hoffmeister, Pichl, Koželuch, Sperger, Kohaut, Zimmerman and Mozart. Table of Contents Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) composed 106 symphonies and 104 have numbers that were