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Portrait of Haydn by Thomas Hardy, c. 1791 [1]. Franz Joseph Haydn [a] (/ ˈ h aɪ d ən / HY-dən; German: [ˈfʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdn̩] ⓘ; 31 March [b] 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
The Latinised form of the family name, Estoras, in 2009 is used to label fine Esterházy wines. The Esterházy family is known for its association with the composer Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), who served as their Kapellmeister. Haydn was hired by Prince Paul Anton in 1761, and from 1762 to 1790 served under Paul Anton's successor Nikolaus.
Haydn's birth home in Rohrau Hainburg Foreground: the Kapellhaus of St. Stephen's Cathedral (demolished 1804) The city palace of the Esterházy family, on the Wallnerstrasse in Vienna Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt, the seat of the Esterházy family The house Haydn owned in Eisenstadt Esterháza Palace in Fertőd, Hungary The Hanover Square Rooms, principal venue of Haydn's performances in ...
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Mathias Haydn (31 January 1699 – 12 September 1763) was the father of two famous composers, Joseph and Michael Haydn. He worked as a wheelwright in the Austrian village of Rohrau , where he also served as Marktrichter , an office akin to village mayor.
Masses nos. 9–14 form a group: each was composed by Haydn for the Esterházy family, to celebrate the name day (12 September) of Princess Maria Hermenegild, the wife of Prince Nikolaus II and a friend of the composer. [2] The composition of these masses was Haydn's principal duty to his old employers at this time of his career.
The farmhouse was built about 1728 by Matthias Haydn, a wheelwright and later a Marktrichter (village mayor). He and his wife Maria, who had been a cook in the service of Count Harrach, had several children, including Joseph Haydn, born on 31 March 1732, and his brother Michael, also a composer, born on 14 September 1737.
In the 1930s, the German musicologist Ernst Fritz Schmid took up the issue of Haydn's origins, searching in parish records and elsewhere for evidence of Haydn's ancestry. . He concluded on the basis of his research that Haydn's ethnic roots were not Croat, but German, and that the names "Haydn" and "Koller" are of German orig