In the Minuet, Haydn writes the movement as a canon between the higher voices (violins and oboes) and lower voices (violas and cellos) at an interval of a single bar. Haydn had written such a canon in the minuet of his third symphony and similar canons would be later be written into G major minuets by Michael Haydn and Mozart. Haydn himself would later develop this technique into the "Canones in Diapason" of the minuet of his Trauer Symphony and the "Witches Minuet" of his D minor string quartet from Op. 76.
| Date of composition | 1764 |
| Type | Symphony |
| Tonality | G Major |
| Catalogue | Hob. I:23 |
| Approx. duration | 20 minutes |
| Instruments | Orchestra |
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Joseph Haydn: Symphonie n°23 en sol majeur, Hob. I:23 Franz Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia n. 23 in sol maggiore, Hob. I:23 Joseph Haydn: Sinfonie Nr. 23 G-dur, Hob. I:23 |