The Symphony No. 56 in C major, Hoboken I/56, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn, composed by 1774. It is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns (C alto and F), two trumpets, timpani and strings.H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works, 5 vols, (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976-) v. 2: "Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790",. This is the only symphony by Joseph Haydn where he calls for the usage of both C alto horns and trumpets.
It is in four movements:
Daniel Heartz has noted the similarity of the first movement in its character to the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 55. The slow movement, in F, contains notable concertante work in the bassoon and two oboe parts.Daniel Heartz, Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780. W.W. Norton & Company (), p. 368 (1995). The finale is a frenetic tarantella/saltarello dance movement with several pauses and fermatas as interruptions.A. Peter Brown, The Symphonic Repertoire (Volume 2). Indiana University Press (), pp. 156-157 (2002).
References
Sources Robbins Landon, H. C. (1963) Joseph Haydn: Critical Edition of the Complete Symphonies, Universal Edition, Vienna.