The opening movement begins with a hammerstroke and a dotted-rhythm fanfare of repeated notes which serves as the first theme for the sonata-form movement. The line between the development and recapitulation is blurred by the reappearance of the dotted-rhythm in G minor (the home tonic but the wrong mode) followed by standard recapitulation of the second theme group. The first theme is finally resolved in the concluding coda.
| Date of composition | 1772 |
| Type | Symphony |
| Tonality | G Major |
| Catalogue | Hob. I:47 |
| Approx. duration | 24 minutes |
| Instruments | Orchestra |
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Joseph Haydn: Symphonie n°47 en sol majeur, Hob. I:47 "The Palindrome" Franz Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia n. 47 in sol maggiore, Hob. I:47 "The Palindrome" Joseph Haydn: Sinfonie Nr. 47 G-dur, Hob. I:47 "The Palindrome" |