Abstract
The robust concert life of the city manifested itself in an assortment of categories, from subscription and benefit concerts, both of which featured sizeable orchestras as well as solo performers, to smaller concerts in private homes.Johan Arnold is subsequently listed as performing a Pleyel cello concerto at another Hanover Square concert sponsored by Salomon, on 2 March 1792, a performance that is advertised as 'being his first appearance in this country' (Landon, Haydn in England 1791-1795, 139), by which is meant, presumably, his first appearance in a public concert venue.A small number of adjustments made in the edition along these lines are enumerated in the 'Critical Notes' section, which occupies scarcely a full page's worth of space in the Introduction.[...]the musical notation is presented very much as it appears in the manuscript, including the retention of various ornaments that are utilized throughout the works.The vogue for works in the modern style was greatly enhanced by Haydn's visits, and a composer/performer wishing to appeal to less staid segments of the London concert scene at the turn of the nineteenth century might have done worse than to employ the elements that Haydn so masterfully put before his British audiences.