User contributions for Opus33

6 January 2025

• 06:4906:49, 6 January 2025 diff hist −3 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: Better "stays in" rather than "journey to" -- Haydn always had a place to stay there in his patron's city palace. current
• 06:4206:42, 6 January 2025 diff hist −237 Joseph Haydn →Character and appearance: I'm taking to heart the bit on the talk page about the dark complexion and acquiline nose; not obvious from portraits anyway. What remains is the polyp comment, better considered in the category of health. current
• 05:3505:35, 6 January 2025 diff hist +80 Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) →Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio: Probably best to quote the music both for the start of the introduction, and for the start of the allegro, in the first movement current
• 05:3205:32, 6 January 2025 diff hist −21 Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) Don't link to article defining "movement" a second time.
• 05:3105:31, 6 January 2025 diff hist −61 Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) Move the musical example of the first movement to the discussion of the first movement. Bulletize the list of pop culture items.
• 05:2205:22, 6 January 2025 diff hist +150 Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven) Well, the original point of the passage was how aspects of the storm are portrayed musically. I don't think we want to retreat from this. current Tag: Manual revert
• 04:5504:55, 6 January 2025 diff hist +9 Stefano Mandini →His connection with Mozart: rewords to reflect Keefe's view as a plausible conjecture current
• 03:4503:45, 6 January 2025 diff hist +3 m Stefano Mandini →Assessment: typo
• 01:5601:56, 6 January 2025 diff hist +2,769 Stefano Mandini His work with Mozart, from Keefe -- perhaps he spurred Mozart to an improvement Tag: Disambiguation links added

4 January 2025

• 01:3301:33, 4 January 2025 diff hist +1,571 Talk:Joseph Haydn →Keats quote: new section current Tag: New topic
• 01:2801:28, 4 January 2025 diff hist −1,057 Joseph Haydn →Character: Moving a not very relevant passage to the Talk Page
• 01:2201:22, 4 January 2025 diff hist −20 Joseph Haydn →Retirement, illness, and death: No need to link Jones here; he's already been mentioned and the footnote will suffice.
• 01:2101:21, 4 January 2025 diff hist −137 Joseph Haydn →Viennese celebrity: Trim back material not about Haydn

3 January 2025

• 18:4318:43, 3 January 2025 diff hist −217 Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) →Adagio cantabile: Removing an item about "influences" that is independently covered in the "Influences" section
• 18:4218:42, 3 January 2025 diff hist 0 Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) moving a popular culture item to the popular culture section
• 18:4118:41, 3 January 2025 diff hist +29 Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) These speculations are ok for article but are hardly lead material; moving to a later section
• 18:3818:38, 3 January 2025 diff hist +1 Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) Undid revision 1267059067 by 210.185.66.189 (talk) Please wake up before editing. Tag: Undo
• 03:1403:14, 3 January 2025 diff hist +6 John Broadwood →Life: Good to keep "Shudi" since it evokes the descent of the firm from the founder, Shudi. current
• 01:2201:22, 3 January 2025 diff hist +159 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: source Haydn's great happiness in attending gatherings in Mrs. Genzinger's home
• 01:1701:17, 3 January 2025 diff hist +102 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: add Wigmore: a person one might want to befriend
• 01:1201:12, 3 January 2025 diff hist +230 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Backdrop: One more item to illustrate fame-with-isolation

2 January 2025

• 23:4723:47, 2 January 2025 diff hist +2 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →The anomalous dedication: clarify
• 19:4819:48, 2 January 2025 diff hist +28 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →The anomalous dedication: Schloen was not the editor but the provider of the preface and notes
• 19:4019:40, 2 January 2025 diff hist +4 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Backdrop: link Vienna at first appearance
• 19:3819:38, 2 January 2025 diff hist +137 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Backdrop: add an image of the palace
• 04:1304:13, 2 January 2025 diff hist +183 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's instrument: hard to find a suitable image. This one is at least attractive, if anachronistic
• 03:5903:59, 2 January 2025 diff hist +163 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's instrument: show what her piano (once she got it) might have looked like
• 03:4003:40, 2 January 2025 diff hist +122 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: remove a redundancy; trying to represent more than one point of view and not be tabloid-y
• 03:3503:35, 2 January 2025 diff hist +56 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →References: Add Hughes book to references
• 03:3303:33, 2 January 2025 diff hist +13 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 Add Rosemary Hughes for biographers who have assessed the evidence re. their relationship
• 03:2903:29, 2 January 2025 diff hist −18 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: adding Geringer on their relationship, and nuancing the characterization to better match sources

1 January 2025

• 23:1723:17, 1 January 2025 diff hist +10 m Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's reaction: typo
• 23:1023:10, 1 January 2025 diff hist +441 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: starting to source the issue of Haydn's feelings with Heartz; will add others
• 22:5722:57, 1 January 2025 diff hist −13 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Composition history: Putting his age up front
• 20:1020:10, 1 January 2025 diff hist +58 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's reaction: the promised symphony
• 20:0820:08, 1 January 2025 diff hist +69 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's reaction: The hand-crossings are ''not'' hard, even I can play them. Again, I need a source for this.
• 19:5619:56, 1 January 2025 diff hist +12 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: life dates of her husband
• 19:5219:52, 1 January 2025 diff hist +29 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: Married at 18
• 19:3619:36, 1 January 2025 diff hist +230 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Maria Anna von Genzinger: be more careful about the date they met, per Heartz
• 19:2819:28, 1 January 2025 diff hist −55 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →The anomalous dedication: Replacing Hadden's translation with Heartz's
• 19:0319:03, 1 January 2025 diff hist 0 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Backdrop: give exact date of Prince Nikolaus's death
• 18:5918:59, 1 January 2025 diff hist +67 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's instrument: Link to articles about the two sonatas mentioned here.
• 18:5618:56, 1 January 2025 diff hist +2 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's instrument: punctuate to help show which words are Haydn's and which Beghin's
• 18:5218:52, 1 January 2025 diff hist −46 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's instrument: Better to give Webster and Feder's general survey rather than a specific instance, to illustrate Haydn's shift from harpsichord to piano.
• 06:0606:06, 1 January 2025 diff hist +311 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's instrument: Haydn alluded to his past as a harpsichord composer; explain, with an example
• 05:5705:57, 1 January 2025 diff hist +364 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Mrs. Genzinger's instrument: finally getting the right kind of instrument (not a harpsichord, not a big Broadwood either)
• 05:4805:48, 1 January 2025 diff hist +260 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Publication: Source the claim that publishers recommended the harpsichord for ever-more-inappropriate music (here, Beethoven 1803).

31 December 2024

• 22:1022:10, 31 December 2024 diff hist +64 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Publication: It's not just me who feels this sonata should not be played on a harpsichord, we know Haydn felt that way.
• 21:5921:59, 31 December 2024 diff hist +58 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Backdrop: Give Genzinger more play at first mention
• 21:5821:58, 31 December 2024 diff hist −2 Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/49 →Backdrop: It should say chamber music, not quartets, since there were quintets as well, per Stadler