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Joseph Haydn

Austrian composer (1732–1809)

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Franz Joseph Haydn[a] (HY-dən; German:[ˈfʁantsˈjoːzɛfˈhaɪdn̩]ⓘ; 31 March[b] 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio.[2] His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String quartet".

Haydn arose from humble origins, the child of working people in a rural village. He established his career first by serving as a chorister at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, then through an arduous period as a freelance musician. Eventually he found career success, spending much of his working life as music director for the wealthy Esterházy family at their palace of Eszterháza in rural Hungary. Though he had his own orchestra there, it isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become origin

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It is well known that Franz Joseph Haydn’s most famous colleague, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, died in poverty.  The exact location of his grave still remains a mystery.  Haydn’s case is completely different.  When the older composer died in 1809, his fame was so great that phrenologists, seeking to discover the secret of Haydn’s genius, took the composer’s head for study.  Haydn’s head traveled around Europe for 145 years until it was reunited with his body in a final interment ceremony in Eisenstadt in 1954.

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Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria on March 31, 1732.  He was the second of twelve children born to Mathias Haydn, a wheelwright, and his wife Anna Maria Koller. The family enjoyed devoting their free time to musical pursuits and held frequent concerts led by Mathias, who sang and accompanied himself on the harp and encouraged the children to sing along.  These activities resulted in several of the children becoming musicians, including Franz Joseph, Michael and Johann Evangeli
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Haydn biography by a Milanese musician from the time of the Napoleonic wars

Haydn Biography by a Milanese Musician from the Time of the Napoleonic Wars Katalin Szerző Hungarian Academy of Arts Pf. 242, H-1368 Budapest, Hungary E-mail: szerzo.katalin@gmail.com (Received: September 2016; accepted: November 2016) Abstract: The article discusses the German translation of Giuseppe Carpani’s Haydn biography of 1812. While notes on Haydn by the two German biographers Dies and Griesinger are regularly quoted and considered authentic despite the fact that their authors were good observers but not musicians, musicology pays little attention to the third contemporary Haydn biography by the musician Carpani (1752[?]–1825). He was looked upon with distrust and it reflected on him in intellectual circles that his book on Haydn was plagiarized under a pseudonym right after its publication by an author who later acquired world fame as Stendhal. Keywords: Giuseppe Carpani, Joseph Haydn, biography “Haydn hat wie Columbus den Weg zu einer neuen Welt erschlossen, deren Existenz mehr oder weniger nur

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