Haydn Activity Sheet from Classics for Kids

Listen to Haydn’s Farewell Symphony and read The Farewell Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza

Listen to Haydn’s Concerto in D Major for Cello and Orchestra and read Claude Clement’s The Voice of the Wood; other related readings: Sound Designs: A Handbook of Musical Instrument Building and Music in the Wood

Select a segment from Symphony No. 94 (or any Haydn piece), play it for the kids several times, then ask each child to hum a melody of how he/she would continue if it were his/her composition.

Play Symphony no. 47 in G major, listening for the mirror
images in each section.

Some suggested books (may be OOP):

Joseph Haydn: The Merry Little Peasant by Opal Wheeler
Haydn: A Creative Life in Music by Karl Geiringer
Ludwig Van Beethoven by Mike Venezia (Beethoven learned from Haydn)
Joseph Haydn by Wendy Thomspon
The 18th Century: Artists, Writers and Composers
The Boy who Loved Music by Joe lasker

and of course, our mainstays:
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Young People’s Concerts by Leonard Bernstein (highly recommended, esp. Chapter Six: Humor in Music)
Story of the Orchestra by Robert Levine et al
Lives of the Musicians by Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt
The Story of Haydn (Vox Recording)

Other suggestions for listening:

Harmoniemesse “Wind Band Mass”
Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation”

Listen to Surprise Symphony and watch for the loud chord (the surprise!).

B-flat symphony (No. 102) – listen for the serious segment followed by a “laughing” segment in the last movement

Read some Shakespeare while listening to Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto

Almost forgot: “The Seasons” (another oratorio) has an Autumn segment.