Appendix: March op. 22 no. 2
Violin and Piano
In brief

This March for violin and piano has a martial, rhythmic character—playful but controlled—that requires steady pulse to maintain the march feel. With no specific technical skills provided, and given the duo format and an overall difficulty of 38/100, expect challenges mainly in ensemble cohesion and balancing the two parts rather than in extreme virtuosity. Its placement in an appendix and an unknown period point to uncertain attribution or dating within Haydn’s catalogue rather than to a central work like his symphonies or string quartets. I do not suggest performance references here because I am not confident of a definitive recording for this particular piece.

Formation

Violin and piano · 2 performers

Required forces
Violin 1 performers
Piano 1 performers
Playable parts
Violin Piano
MusicCoach difficulty
38/100
Elementary
Likely range : 32–44/100
Confidence : 48% · to confirm
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedVirtuoso
Exam grade
About grade 4

Estimated from our difficulty score, not taken from an exam syllabus. Checked against 333 works on the ABRSM syllabus: the exact grade is right 7 times out of 10, and within one grade 99 times out of 100.

Difficulty estimate by MusicCoach on a scale of 1 to 100.

Where this work sits
050100

Most works cluster between 45 and 65: a small score gap often marks a real step. The highlighted bar shows this work among those for the same instrument.

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Difficulty sources
Henle Verlag
4
38/100 normalised
Relative difficulty
17%
Among Franz Joseph Haydn
24%
Era
Genre
Estimated skills

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