Ex. 4-3: The Wanderer

No. 2 from Haydn's "Six Original Canzonettas, Second Set" (Hob. XXVIa:32), published in London by Corri & Co. in 1795. The poem is by Anne Hunter (1742–1821), wife of the surgeon John Hunter and one of Haydn's important patrons during his London years.

The song opens with "To wander alone when the moon, faintly beaming" — a wanderer's lament of solitude and lost happiness, set in G minor. Haydn wrote these English-language canzonettas during his second visit to London. They came before the German Romantic Lieder of the 1800s and pointed the way toward them.

Track 10 from the album Haydn: Lieder by Elly Ameling and Jörg Demus (1981)
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