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Symphony No. 18 (Haydn)

symphony by Joseph Haydn

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ2102970 ↗
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The Symphony No. 18 in G major, Hoboken I/18, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. The composition date is conspicuously uncertain. The Breitkopf catalogue entry assures that it was composed no later than March 1766, the date of the Esterhazy orchestra moving to Esterhaza, but most scholars believe it was composed at least a few years before then. Dates between 1757 and 1764 have been also suggested but not proven.

Music

The symphony is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns, strings, and continuo.

Although the symphony is in three movements, it has been sometimes categorized as in the sonata da chiesa style due to the presence of an entire opening slow movement. The three movements are:

The opening movement is written in the form of a trio sonata with two melodic lines over an independent bass.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1766, 1757, 1764—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Symphony, Haydn and symphony can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as symphony by Joseph Haydn. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Symphony No. 18 (Haydn)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.