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Hyacinthe Jadin
(1776-1800)
Piano Sonatas
op.3: Eb maj, g min, D maj
op.4: Bb maj, f# min, f# min
op.5: f min, D maj, c min
op.6: c min, A maj, F maj
edited by Richard Fuller
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The data concerning Jadin's life are as scarce as his years (Castinel 1991): On April 27, 1776, he was born at Versailles as the son of a regularly employed court musician and bassoonist of the royal orchestra. His brother Louis-Emanuel, later famous for his dramatic works, and Hyacinthe were the most talented among five musically gifted brothers.
Nicolas Joseph Huellmandel, himself a student of C.P.E. Bach and composer of piano sonatas and pedagogical works, apparently gave Hyacinthe Jadin a solid musical education, just as Neefe was instructing the young Beethoven at the same time. The time was not the most favorable for piano music and public performance; the worst fate was suffered by the lawyer, composer, and ardent revolutionary Jean-Fredéric Edelmann: he was not to survive the Grand Terreur of Robespierre. Already in May 1789, after the first prerevolutionary riots, but before the storming of the Bastille, Dussek had fled to England. In the same year the 13-year old Jadin appeared at the Concerts Spirituels performing a concerto of his own composition. By 1790, Huellmandel had fled Paris for London. The young composer was on his own.
From 1794 onwards, four volumes of piano sonatas, op. 3, 4, 5, and 6, each containing three sonatas, were published. Three piano concertos are among the few examples of this genre which was somewhat overshadowed at the time by revolutionary and republican openair music. (A hymn in 1794 on the first anniversary of January 21, the execution of the citizen Capet, former king Louis XVI of France, sentenced to death for high treason, a hymn to agriculture in 1796, and an overture for 13 wind instruments were Jadin's contribution to this time both by conviction and commitment). At the founding of the Conservatoire in 1795 he was designated professor of the ladies' piano class.
At that time, tuberculosis - the first symptom of which was the bloodstained cough - meant certain death. Jadin's condition worsened; ultimately Napoleon himself exempted the composer from military service. On September 22, 1799, Jadin performed in public for the last time. His end could hardly have been more tragic, dying in poverty on September 26, 1800, - the Conservatoire still owed him some monthly salaries in this time of political unrest. There are no known portraits of the composer, and the piano sonatas presented here are among the first new editions after 200 years.
Jadin's piano sonatas might easily be attributed to Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, even before Beethoven's first sonatas op. 2 and 20 years before Schubert. We can hardly imagine what Jadin might have achieved had he lived to artistic maturity; his piano music would perhaps have approached that of Mozart, Dussek or Beethoven in scope and content, and perhaps not only Vienna, but also Paris would have become a centerof pianism...
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Dr. Heinz Anderle is the scientific adviser of the music publisher Wolfgang Kiess. He is the promotor of the present series of works.
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| piano sonata op. 3: No. 1, Allegro moderato | |  | |
| piano sonata op.4: No. 2, Allegro molto | |  |
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