Joseph Haydn - "Piano Trio #39 'Gypsy Rondo' in G"

He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio. His contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".

Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.

He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a tutor of Beethoven, and the older brother of composer Michael Haydn.

Here, in this piece, he found something fleeting light the sunset over the ocean. Beautiful and alive and yet just out of reach and ever fading. A beautiful musical poem if ever there was one.

So today, with light falling all around me, I choose “Joseph Haydn’s “Piano Trio #39 ‘Gypsy Rondo’ in G” as my sparkle a little brighter, forget fear, follow the laughter through the wearisome present, song for a, like a pickpocket for memories, hold on to the joy, let your heart beat again for the hope of what might be, Monday.