LEONIE ZIFADO (Soprano) \
ISABEL GRAY (Pianoforte)
HAYDN DRAPER (Clarinet)
The CHARLES WOODHOUSE STRING QUARTET : CHARLES WOODHOUSE (1st Violin), HERBERT KINSEY (2nd Violin), ERNEST YONGE (Viola),
CHARLES CRABBE (Violoncello)
QUARTET
' Kaiser ' (or ' Emperor ') Quartet (Op. 76, No. 3)
Haydn
(1) Quick: (2) Air with variations; (3) Minuet; (4) Very quick
TTAYDN'S Emperor Quartet is so named because its Second Movement consists of a set of Variations upon the Emperor's Hymn, more familiarly known to us as the Austrian Hymn and as Deutschland über Alles. The melody originally belonged to Haydn's native country, Croatia. Haydn made a four-voiced arrangement of it to words that fitted in with the patriotic fervour roused by the wars of 1797, and this arrangement was sung to the Emperor Francis II on his birthday. It was this, and the present String Quartet arrangement, that sent this local popular tune round the musical world.