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Joseph Haydn: Capriccio in G major, Hob.XVII:1 Acht Sauschneider mussen sein

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JOSEPH HAYDN

(1732-1809)

Capriccio in G Major, Hob. XVII:1 (“Acht Sauschneider müssen seyn”)

 

Haydn composed his Capriccio in G Major, Hob. XVII:1, in 1765 for the fortepiano at the Esterházy palace at Eisenstadt.

 

This quasi-improvised elaboration on an Austrian folk song (“Acht Sauschneider müssen seyn”) humorously ponders how many “Sauschneider”—professional castrators of livestock—are required to neuter a boar, beginning with eight and counting down verse-by-verse to one man to perform the entire deed:

 

There must be eight men, eight men, if you want to castrate a boar. Two in front and two in back, two to hold, one to bind and one to make the cut, make the cut, yea there must be eight. There must be seven men, seven men, if you want to castrate a boar, etc. Haydn structured his Capriccio as a quasi-improvised mono thematic rondo in which the tune appears in different keys personifying, perhaps, each “Sauschneider.”

 

Wild boar plowing through the field – Gif

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