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  Franz Joseph Haydn - LoveToKnow 1911
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809), Austrian composer, was born on the 31st of March 1732 at Rohrau (Trstnik), a village on the borders of Lower Austria and Hungary.
Here Haydn wrote, in rapid succession, eighteen divertimenti which include his first symphony and his first quartet; the two earliest examples of the forms with which his name is most closely associated.
Haydn, thus released from his official duties, forthwith accepted a commission from Salomon, the London concertdirector, to write and conduct six symphonies for the concerts in the Hanover Square Rooms.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Joseph Haydn
Haydn was especially respected by the Eszterházy court musicians whom he supervised, as he maintained a cordial working atmosphere and effectively represented the musicians' interests with their employer; see Papa Haydn and the tale of the "Farewell" Symphony.
Haydn was particularly fond of the so-called "monothematic exposition", in which the music that establishes the dominant key is similar or identical to the opening theme.
Haydn was born in 1732 in the village of Rohrau near the border with Hungary.
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  Johann Evangelist Haydn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johann Evangelist Haydn (1743 — May 10, 1805), was a tenor singer, the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn.
For a long time he sang in the chapel of Joseph Haydn's patron, Prince Esterházy.
"Hansl" Haydn, as he was known to his brothers, was apparently not a very good singer, and was kept in the employ of the Eszterházys as a favor to his illustrious older brother Joseph, who served the Eszterházys as music director.
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 Joseph Haydn - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Haydn was born in 1732, the son of a wheelwright living in the village of Rohrau near the border with Hungary.
Haydn was a devout Catholic, who often turned to his rosary when he got stuck in 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.
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 Franz Joseph Haydn - Biography and Works by Classical Favorites
Haydn was born in 1732, the son of a wheelwright living in the village of Rohrau near the border with Hungary.
Gradually, Haydn came to write as much for publication as for his employer, and several important works of this period, such as the Paris symphonies (1785-6) and the original orchestral version of The Seven Last Words of Christ (1786), were commissions from abroad.
Haydn was well cared for by his servants, and he received many visitors and public honors during his last years, but they cannot have been very happy years for him.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Passion Music
To the priest were assigned the words of our Lord, the deacon assumed the rôle of the Evangelist, or chronista, while the sub-deacon represented the crowd, or turba, and the various other persons mentioned in the narrative.
evangelist, or chronista, moves between the tonic and the dominant, while the suprema vox, representing the crowd, etc., moves between the dominant and the upper
Johann Sebastiani (1622-83) anticipated Schütz by the employment of a single violin as an accompaniment to the chorales sung by the congregation during the performance, a
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 Franz Joseph Haydn: Biography - Classic Cat
Haydn's parents were perceptive enough to notice that their son was musically talented and knew that in Rohrau he would have no chance to obtain any serious musical training.
Haydn is often described as the "father" of the classical symphony and the classical string quartet.
Haydn's compositional practice was rooted in a study of the modal counterpoint of Fux, and the tonal homophonic styles that had become more and more popular, particularly the work of Gluck and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
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 The Violin Site :: Franz Joseph Haydn
Haydn was born in 1732 in the Austrian village of Rohrau near the border with Hungary.
Haydn's parents were perceptive enough to notice that their little son had musical talent, and they also knew that in Rohrau he would have no chance to obtain any serious musical training.
Haydn's compositional practice was rooted in a study of the modal counterpoint of Fux, and the tonal homophonic styles which had become more and more popular, particularly the work of Gluck and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, of the later Haydn wrote "without him, we know nothing".
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 Joseph Haydn
This attracted the attention of a distant relative named Johann Mathias Frankh, who was schoolmaster in the neighboring town of Hamburg, and who, in 1738, took the child and for the next two years trained him as a chorister.
Haydn, thus released from his official duties, forthwith accepted a commission from Salomon, the London concert director, to write and conduct six symphonies for the concerts in the Hanover Square Rooms.
Haydn broke through this convention by frankly introducing his native folk-music, and by writing many of his own tunes in the same direct, vigorous and simple style.
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 haydn - Spock Search
Whit Haydn (born July 19, 1949 as Whitney Wesley Hadden in Clarksville, Tennessee) is an American magician, the winner of six "Magician of the...
Johann Michael Haydn (September 14, 1737 - August 10, 1806) was an Austrian composer, the younger brother of (Franz) Joseph Haydn.
Johann Evangelist Haydn, was a tenor singer of the classical era; the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn.
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 •• Biography of Franz Joseph Haydn - PianoParadise••
A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician, running the orchestra, opera company, etc. of the wealthy Esterhazy family on their remote estate, for which he had to compose most of the music.
Haydn is traditionally considered the father of the symphony and string quartet, and he did write the first well-known works in those genres.
Besides the symphony and string quartet, Haydn also pioneered the development of sonata form, and was innovative in his writing of keyboard sonatas, which are perhaps the first piano sonatas, though some may have been written for harpsichord or fortepiano.
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 Ludwig van Beethoven: Joseph Haydn
Life A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician, running the orchestra, opera company, etc. of the wealthy Eszterh‡zy family on their remote estate, for which he had to compose most of the music.
Besides the symphony and string quartet, Haydn also pioneered the development of sonata form, and was innovative in his writing of keyboard sonatas and of piano trios.
The organizational principle for much of Haydn's work is sonata form, of which the basic elements--as they appear in Haydn--are as follows: * Exposition: presentation of the initial musical material, followed by a modulation to the dominant key (creating an increase of musical tension), and a local resolution and cadence in the dominant.
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 Joseph Haydn
Haydn wurde 1732 als Sohn eines Wagnermeisters in dem Dorf Rohrau nahe der ungarischen Grenze geboren.
Haydn wird traditionell als Vater der Sinfonie und des Streichquartettss betrachtet, und er schrieb die ersten bekannten Werke in diesen Gattungen.
Haydns frühe Werke datierten aus der Periode, in der der kompositorische Stil des Hochbarocks (wie er in Bachs und Händels Musik zum Ausdruck kommt) aus der Mode gekommen war, aber Komponisten noch nicht auf Wege gestoßen waren, in dem neu aufkommenden Idiom Werke von ähnlichem Gewicht zu schreiben.
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 The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Haydn was a leading composer of the Classical period, called the 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet'.
He was the brother of Michael Haydn, himself a highly regarded composer, and Johann Evangelist Haydn, a tenor singer.
A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician for a wealthy family on their remote estate.
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Joseph Haydn is the oldest of those three composers whose works form an entire era of history of music in the late 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century.
Haydn's first significant compositions were probably composed in 1748, the penultimate year of his participation in the "Capelle" of the Stephansdom.
Haydn's most important place of activity between 1762 and 1766 was the Esterházy castle in Eisenstadt, which festival hall has still today one of the best acoustics of the Austrian concert halls.
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 Johann Evangelist Haydn   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Johann Evangelist Haydn (1743 - 1805) was a tenor singer, theyounger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn.
For a long time hesang in the chapel of Joseph Haydn's patron, Prince Esterházy.
"Hansl" Haydn, as he was known to his brothers, was apparently not a very good singer, and was kept inthe employ of the Eszterházys as a favor to his illustrious older brother Joseph, who served the Eszterházys as musicdirector.
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 evangelist
Generally, evangelists are protestants, and lead meetings known as revivals, harvest meetings or evangelistic crusades.
Evangelists generally lead large meetings, possibly in tents or existing churches, in contrast to street corner preaching where the listeners are only those who are nearby on the street.
Evangelist is also a designation for each of the (anonymous) authors of the four Gospels in the New Testament, traditionally known as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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 HAYDN, JOSEPH   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician, running the orchestra, opera company, etc. of the wealthy Eszterházy family on their remote estate, for which he had to compose most of the music.
Haydn's early work dates from a period in which the compositional style of the High Baroque (seen in Bach and Handel's music) had gone out of fashion, but composers had not yet hit upon ways of writing music in the newly emerging idioms that would bear comparable weight.
Haydn by Rosemary Hughes (New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux 1970) gives a sympathetic and witty account of Haydn's life, along with a survey of the music.
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 Joseph Haydn : Franz Joseph Haydn   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Franz Joseph (sometimes Josef) Haydn (he never used the Franz) (March 31, 1732 - May 31, 1809) was a leading composer of the high classical period, second only to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician, running the orchestra, opera company, etc. of the wealthy Esterhazy family on their remote estate, for which he had to compose most of the music.
Haydn is traditionally considered the father of the symphony and string quartet, and he did write the first well-known works in those genres.
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 Who is Haydn?
Haydn was only six at the time, and accounts tell that he was frequently hungry and poorly treated by Franck.
Haydn was overwhelmed by Mozart’s genius, and the two became inseparable.
Haydn was beloved by many who remarked on his sense of humor, his humility, and his irrepressible energy.
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 Johann Evangelist Haydn singer composer Michael Haydn Joseph Haydn tenor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"Hansl" Haydn, as he was known to his brothers, was apparently not a very good singer, and was kept in the employ of the Eszterh?s as a favor to his illustrious older brother Joseph, who served the Eszterh?s as music director.
Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch Johann Esaias Silberschlag Johann Evangelist Haydn Johann Fischer von Waldheim Johann Franz Encke Johann Friedrich Johann Friedrich Abegg Johann Friedrich Agricola Johann Friedrich...
Johann Evangelist died on May 10, 1805 and Michael died in August 1806.
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 Laurentius Grundschule Essen Steele
Haydn verbrachte den größten Teil seiner Karriere als Hofmusiker und leitete das Orchester und die Oper der wohlhabenden Familie Esterházy auf deren Landsitz, für die er Musik zu komponieren hatte.
Haydn wird traditionell als „Vater“ der klassischen Sinfonie und des Streichquartetts betrachtet und war Neuerer beim Schreiben von Klaviersonaten und Klaviertrios.
Daneben trug Haydn auch zur Entwicklung der Sonatenform aus einem starren Formschema in eine subtile und flexible musikalische Ausdrucksform bei.
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 The Franz Joseph Haydn Biography Page on Classic Cat
Haydn was born in 1732 in the village of Rohrau near the border with Hungary.
It was for this reason that they accepted a proposal from their relative Johann Matthias Franck, the schoolmaster and choirmaster in Hainburg, that Haydn should be taken into Franck's home and be trained as a musician.
Haydn thus went off with Frank to Hainburg (ten miles away) and never again lived with his parents.
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 Appendix D: Haydn's Brothers Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first, JOHANN EVANGELIST HAYDN, made some little reputation as a vocalist, and was engaged in that capacity in the Esterhazy Chapel.
A Mass in D is his best-known composition, though mention should be made of the popular common-metre tune "Salzburg," adapted from a mass composed for the use of country choirs.
Michael Haydn was nominated the great composer's sole heir, but his death frustrated the generous intention.
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 Joseph Haydn Guitar Tabs and Chords: 0 Free Tabs!
Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31 or April 1, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was a leading composer of the Classical period, called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
Being isolated from other composers and trends in music until the later part of his long life, he was, as he put it, "forced to become original".
Joseph Haydn was the brother of Michael Haydn, himself a highly regarded composer, and Johann Evangelist Haydn, a tenor singer.
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 HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH (1732—1809) - Online Information article about HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH (1732—1809)
Haydn's place in musical history is best determined by his instrumental compositions.
In the development of instrumental polyphony Haydn's work was almost as important as that of Mozart.
Sion, a set of graduals, forty-two of which are reprinted in Diabelli's Ecclesiasticon, three symphonies (1785), and a string quintet in C major which has been erroneously attributed to Joseph Haydn.
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 Croatian composer Joseph Haydn, by William H. Hadow
Johann Evangelist Haydn, born in 1743 at Rohrau.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, born in 1778 at Pressburg.
But as early as 1747 the Magyarised form appears in the person of Canon Johann Liszt; and there can be little doubt that by the time of the great pianist's birth the family had become thoroughly Hungarian.
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 Johann Evangelist Haydn - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Johann Evangelist Haydn - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Johann Evangelist Haydn (1743—1805) was a tenor singer, the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn.
This page was last modified 22:03, 15 Mar 2005.
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