The Symphony No. 66 in B major (Hoboken I/66) is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. The time of composition is uncertain, with one speculation from around 1775–76.Heartz, Daniel, Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780. W.W. Norton & Company (), p. 372 (1995).
The symphony is scored for two oboes, two bassoons, two horns and strings.HC Robbins Landon, Haydn: Chronicle and Works, 5 vols, (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976-) v. 2, Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790
Movements The work is in four movements:
L.P. Burstein has noted Haydn's use of the VII chord and the VII → V progression in the first movement. A.P. Brown has noted how Haydn reworked material from the symphony's first movement into other compositions, including an overture in D and two other symphonies.Brown, A. Peter, The Symphonic Repertoire (Volume 2). Indiana University Press (), pp. 170–171 (2002).
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