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Symphony No. 55 (Haydn)

1774 composition by Joseph Haydn

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Symphony No. 55 in E♭ major, Hob. I:55, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn, composed by 1774. It is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns, and strings.

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“Symphony No. 55 (Haydn)” enters the record as 1774 composition by Joseph Haydn. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Symphony, Haydn and composition can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1774—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Symphony, Haydn and composition.
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This entry incorporates text from “Symphony No. 55 (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.