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Giovanni Antonini

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The Complete Haydn Recordings: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Paris Symphonies, a Key Work Marking the Transition to His Later Period!As part of Antoninis project to record all of Haydns symphonies in time for the 300th anniversary of the composers birth in 2032, this is the 11th release. Moving beyond the previous focus on mid-career works, this program centers on two major works composed after Haydn turned 50.The theme is The Parisian Publics Favorites. In Paris at that time, as orchestral concerts were beginning to gain attention as a new form of entertainment, symphonies composed in the German-speaking world were gaining popularityand Haydn was one of the composers who contributed significantly to that boom. His six symphoniesNos. 82 through 87were composed for the *Concert de la Loge*one of the concert series held in the French capital Olympique, and are therefore known as the Paris