Round 8: Tossup 10

The coda of the presto finale of the sixth of these pieces slows to più moderato for a virtuosic keyboard solo that the composer played at its premiere. Near the end of the slow movement of the first of these pieces, both bassoons play a loud low C representing a fart. At the premiere of one of these pieces, the audience apocryphally crowded near the stage and were unharmed when a chandelier fell behind them. (-5[2])The success of these pieces ruined a rival concert series featuring their composer’s student, Ignaz Pleyel. The impresario Johann Peter Salomon commissioned these pieces in two (10[1])sets from 1791 to 1794, and some of them are nicknamed (-5[1])“Miracle,” “Military,” and “Surprise.” (-5[1])For 10 points, name these last twelve symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn that premiered in a European capital. ■END■ (10[4])

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