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Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, a village that at that time stood on the border with Hungary. [5] His father was Mathias Haydn , a wheelwright who also served as "Marktrichter", or marketplace supervisor.
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.
Haydn was baptized shortly after his birth, on 1 April 1732. The baptismal record indicates that he was given the names Franciscus Josephus; these are Latinized versions of the German names Franz Joseph, often used today to refer to Haydn. [1] Both Franz and Joseph are names of saints whose saint's days fell close to
Map of Haydn's principal residences. This article is a chronologically-ordered list of the locations where the composer Joseph Haydn lived.. Haydn, who lived from 1732 to 1809, spent most of his life in a small region near Vienna no more than about 50 km. across, shown on the map at the right.
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.
Richard Haydn (born George Richard Haydon, 10 March 1905 – 25 April 1985) was a British-American comedy actor.Some of his better known performances include his roles as Professor Oddley in Ball of Fire (1941), Roger in No Time for Love (1943), Thomas Rogers in And Then There Were None (1945), Emperor Franz Joseph in The Emperor Waltz (1948), the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (1951 ...
Hayden Herrera (born 1940), American author and historian; Hayden Hurst (born 1993), American football player; Hayden Kho (born 1980), Filipino cosmetic doctor; Haydn Linsley (born 1993), English/New Zealand singer-songwriter; Hayden Moore (born 1995), American football player; Hayden Moss (born 1986), TV personality
Haydn never set foot in Croatia, but he almost certainly lived in the vicinity of Croatian speakers. This is because migration in previous centuries had resulted in a considerable number of Croats dwelling far to the north of Croatia in the Austro-Hungarian border region where Haydn was born and spent most of his life. [1]