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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Haydn Biography
		Haydn was warmly known as "Papa" by his orchestra at the Esterhazy Court where he worked for a good deal of his life, but he has become known as Papa Haydn to us all.
		Haydn was born in the town of Rohrau on the Austrian-Hungarian border in 1732, the son of a wagon maker.
		Haydn was free to move to Vienna and later in the year he accepted an offer from violinist and impresario Johann Saloman to go to England.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/haydn_bio.html (1327 words)

	Joseph Haydn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Franz Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in the Austrian village of Rohrau near the border with Hungary.
		Haydn was a devout Catholic who often turned to his rosary when he had trouble composing, a practice that he usually found to be effective.
		Haydn is credited as the "father" of the classical symphony and string quartet, and also wrote many piano sonatas, piano trios, divertimentos and masses, which became the foundation for the Classical style in these compositional types.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haydn (4214 words)

	HOASM: (Franz) Joseph Haydn
		Haydn proposed to serve as Porpora's factotum in return for instruction; although this arrangement was undertaken for no more than three months, Haydn later credited Porpora with teaching him "the true fundamentals of composition;" he also learned much about setting Italian texts.
		Haydn's original contract stipulated that he report to the prince in the morning and again in the afternoon to see if music making was wanted.
		Haydn was given a stipend and permission to leave.
	www.hoasm.org /XIIC/Haydn.html (2070 words)

	NYU Course: Music Literature--The Classical Period: Haydn
		Haydn had a beautiful voice, and it was upon his being heard singing in Hainburg that he was sent to Vienna at the age of eight to become a choirboy, but he received no theoretical training in music while in that service.
		Haydn had many affairs throughout his life and remarked that he always seemed to have the attention of beautiful ladies, even though he couldn't understand why they were attracted to him..
		Haydn's growing reputation attracted the attention of the Esterhazy court, and by March of 1761, Haydn was beginning to reorganize the Capelle of the Esterhazy Court.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/gilbert/classic/haydn.html (1328 words)

	Joseph Haydn
		In his early years Haydn chiefly wrote instrumental music, including symphonies and other pieces for the twice-weekly concerts and the prince's Tafelmusik, and works for the instrument played by the prince, the baryton (a kind of viol), for which he composed circa 125 trios in ten years.
		Haydn's growing reputation was acknowledged in a new contract that he signed with the Esterházys January 1, 1779, when at last, after fifteen years of exclusive employment, he was given the right to compose for other potential patrons, if he wished, and not merely for Prince Nikolaus.
		Haydn was willing, but having reached what he hoped would be his retirement years, worked out a gentle arrangement to suit his preferences.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/haydnj.html (3429 words)

	Haydn: Orfeo ed Euridice by ENSEMBLEGRAM. Ludmilla Shilova, Nikolai Dorozhkin, Maria Struve Children's Capella and ...
		Remaining faithful to the legend is at the core of Haydn's opera and is the driving force throughout it.
		Haydn's choice of E flat major for Orpheo's final aria is daring and imaginative.
		Haydn's Orpheo and Euridice is a masterpiece, which deserves to be established firmly in the repertoire of opera companies today.
	www.ensemblexxi.org /orfeo_introd.htm (1589 words)

	Franz Joseph Haydn biography
		Haydn was indeed a self-made man. Born in the small village of Rohrau, Austria on March 31, 1732, Franz Joseph Haydn was the second of twelve children.
		Haydn stayed, learning all that he could about church music, until puberty changed the timbre of his voice and he was cast into the streets of Vienna with nothing more than a change of clothes.
		Haydn decided to create a new symphony for the prince, a symphony that he hoped would "get Prince Esterhazy's attention." This particular symphony was written with a long slow movement, designed to be so soothing that the prince would surely fall asleep.
	wawa.essortment.com /franzjosephhay_rwml.htm (1138 words)

	Haydn's Biography
		In 1791-1792 and again in 1794-1795, Haydn was wined and dined by the aristocracy, given an honorary doctorate at Oxford, and received by the royal family.
		"Haydn was a pathfinder for the classical style, a pioneer in the development of the symphony and the string quartet.
		Haydn's 104 symphonies--along with his 68 string quartets--are considered the most important part of his enormous output.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Fields/8616/composerfiles/haydn.html (632 words)

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		Of Haydn's concertos, the work written in 1796 for the newly developed and soon to be obsolete keyed trumpet, is the best known, closely rivalled by the two surviving Cello Concertos, in D and in C. Three genuine Violin Concertos remain, in G, in C and in A, and one Horn Concerto.
		Haydn was a prolific composer of chamber music, with a considerable number of compositions for his principal patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, who played the baryton, a bowed string instrument resembling a viola da gamba, with sympathetic strings that could also be plucked.
		Haydn composed nearly fifty keyboard sonatas, the earlier intended for harpsichord and the last for the newly developed hammer-action fortepiano.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Haydn,+Franz+Joseph (1200 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Franz Joseph & Michael Haydn (1732-1809)
		Haydn's father was a poor wheelwright who sent him, at the age of eight, to Vienna to be trained as a chorister at St. Stephen's Cathedral where he became known for his fine voice.
		Johann Michael Haydn, a composer of Osterreich and younger brother of Franz Josef Haydn, was born in Rohrau, in Osterreich, and was baptised on 14 Septembre 1737.
		The friendly relationship between the Mozart family and Haydn is indicated by the two duets for violin and viola (K423 and 424) written by Wolfgang for Haydn in 1783.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=891 (950 words)

	Franz Joseph Haydn
		Haydn was one of several composers who developed the symphony.
		Haydn’s nickname was "Papa," because he was so well liked by the musicians with whom he worked.
		One story told about this symphony is that Haydn and his musicians wanted to return to their families in town for the winter.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/composers/haydn.html (418 words)

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