Divertimento in E-flat major, Hob.II:24 (Haydn, Joseph)

Composition Year	1775
Genre Categories	Divertimentos; For flute, 2 English horns, 2 horns, 3 violins, cello, violone, bass instrument; Scores featuring the flute; Scores featuring the English horn; Scores featuring the horn; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the cello; Scores featuring the violone; Scores with open instrumentation; For 11 players

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Work Title	Divertimento in E-flat major
Alternative. Title
Composer	Haydn, Joseph
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Hob.II:24
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IJH 161
Key	E-flat major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1775
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Classical
Piece Style	Classical
Instrumentation	flute, 2 english horns, bassoon, 2 horns (E♭) (but see below, Comments)

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The G.Henle edition of the J. Haydn Werke, vol.VIII no.2 (1991) calls this work a "fragment", and each variation in it has a different instrumentation, which could account for varying versions of the instrumentation. To perform the entire set of variations (there is no "theme" as a section on its own), you need -- flute, 2 English horns (F), 2 horn (E♭), 3 violins, cello, violone, basso (unfigured), with each variation using as follows:

variation 1 - 2 English horns, 2 violins, basso

variation 2 - flute, 2 violins, basso

variation 3 - 2 violins, cello solo, violone

variation 4 - violin solo, 2 violins, basso

variation 5 - 2 horns, 2 violins, violone solo, basso

Divertimentos in 4 and more Parts by Joseph Haydn (Hob. II)
Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:1 Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:2 Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:3 Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:4 Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:5 Divertimento in E♭ major, Hob.II:6 Divertimento in C major, Hob.II:7 Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:8 Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:9 Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:10 Divertimento in C major, Hob.II:11 Divertimento in B♭ major, Hob.II:12 Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:13 Divertimento in C major, Hob.II:14 Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:15 Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:16 Divertimento in C major, Hob.II:17 Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:18 Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:19 Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:20	Divertimento in E♭ major, Hob.II:21 Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:22 Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:23 Divertimento in E♭ major, Hob.II:24 Notturno in C major, Hob.II:25 Notturno in F major, Hob.II:26 Notturno in G major, Hob.II:27 Notturno in F major, Hob.II:28 Notturno in C major, Hob.II:29 Notturno in G major, Hob.II:30 Notturno in C major, Hob.II:31 Notturno in C major, Hob.II:32 Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:33 (Scherzando no.1) Divertimento in C major, Hob.II:34 (Scherzando no.2) Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:35 (Scherzando no.3) Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:36 (Scherzando no.4) Divertimento in E major, Hob.II:37 (Scherzando no.5) Divertimento in A major, Hob.II:38 (Scherzando no.6) Divertimento in E♭ major, Hob.II:39 (Echo) Sextet in E♭ major, Hob.II:40	Divertimento in E♭ major, Hob.II:41 (Feldparthien no.1) Divertimento in B♭ major, Hob.II:42 (Feldparthien no.2) Divertimento in B♭ major, Hob.II:43 (Feldparthien no.3) Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:44 (Feldparthien no.4) Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:45 (Feldparthien no.5) Divertimento in B♭ major, Hob.II:46 (Feldparthien no.6) Kindersinfonie, Hob.II:47 Though listed in Hoboken’s catalogue, this work is actually by Edmund Angerer (1740–1794) Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:D9 (Flute Quartet no.1) Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:D10 (Flute Quartet no.3) Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:D11 (Flute Quartet no.5) Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:D18 Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:F7 (Partita for Winds) Though listed in Hoboken’s catalogue, this work is actually by Paul Wranitzky (1756-1808) Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:G1 Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:G4 (Flute Quartet no.2) Divertimento in D major, Hob.deest Divertimento in G major, Hob.deest

Divertimentos in 4 and more Parts by Joseph Haydn (Hob. II)

Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:1

Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:2

Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:3

Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:4

Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:5

Divertimento in E♭ major, Hob.II:6

Divertimento in C major, Hob.II:7

Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:8

Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:9

Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:10

Divertimento in C major, Hob.II:11