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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Pleyel's 'London' Symphonies
Contributor:
Searle, Arthur
imprint:
Oxford University Press, 2008
Published in:Early Music
Language:
English
ISSN:
0306-1078;
1741-7260
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>Evidence of provence and bibliographic features suggest that three autograph symphonies of Ignace Pleyel from the collection of the Royal Philharmonic Society in the British Library are the works he composed in London in 1792, when he was engaged by the Professional Concert as a rival to Haydn in the latter's appearances for Salomon. Details of their performance in the succeeding decade support the case. In the E♭ symphony Pleyel anticipates features later used by Haydn in his symphony no.103.</p>