> > On Feb 4, 2019, at 3:51 PM, Alain Veylit <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am looking at an 18th century setting of the Scottish ballad "Barbara > Allen". How credible is the "Harmonized by Joseph Haydn" credit? It's on > IMLSP at: > https://imslp.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen%2C_Hob.XXXIa:11_(Haydn%2C_Joseph)
Very credible. George Thomson, the publisher, paid Haydn well to do a good many such arrangements of folk songs. He later paid Beethoven to do the same. Beethoven scholars will occasionally lament about how much time Beethoven, at the height of his creative powers, spent arranging things like God Save the King and Sally From My Alley. > Th melody and lyrics are quite different from the 20th century American > version. As it would be. That’s the folk process. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
