Symphony No. 45 (Haydn)

Symphony No. 45
by Joseph Haydn
Portrait of Joseph Haydn, ca. 1770
Other name	Farewell Symphony
Period	Classical period
Composed	1772
Duration	About 25 minutes
Movements	Four
Scoring	Orchestra

Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F♯ minor, known as the "Farewell" Symphony (German: Abschieds-Symphonie; modern orthography: Abschiedssinfonie), is a symphony dated 1772 on the autograph score.^[1] A typical performance of the symphony lasts around twenty-five minutes.

The autograph manuscript of the symphony is preserved in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, and was published in facsimile editions in 1959 (Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) and 2010 (Laaber-Verlag).