Haydn Symphony nº Hob. I:49 in F minor ’La Passione’

Atalanta Fugiens, Vanni Moretto, conductor. The familiar nickname for this work, ’La passione’, is not authentic; nor is there any evidence that it had anything to do with Easter or liturgical practice. Indeed a strikingly different nickname, ’The Good-humored Quaker’, appears more often in eighteenth-century sources (though even these are inauthentic). Moralizing Quakers were a common theme in mid-century European drama; it has been speculated that this symphony, like others of Haydn’s from this period, m