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	Joseph Haydn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
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	Encyclopedia: Josef Haydn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Haydn was born in 1732 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 a devout Catholic, who often turned to his rosary when he got stuck in composing, a practice that he usually found to be effective.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Josef-Haydn (3546 words)

	Josef Haydn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Haydn was really in love with her sister, but was talked into marrying Maria by the parents.
		Haydn was short and dark, with a face pitted by smallpox and his legs were too short for his body.
		Haydn was in good health, except for a bit of eye trouble and arthritis towards the end of his life.
	www.bandbasics.com /josef_haydn.htm (629 words)

	MSN Encarta - Haydn
		Haydn's marriage in 1760 to Maria Anna Keller proved to be unhappy as well as childless.
		Haydn's two trips to England for these concerts, in 1791-92 and 1794-95, were the occasion of the huge success of his last symphonies.
		Haydn was prolific in nearly all genres, vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553434/Haydn.html (755 words)

	Joseph Haydn and the Classical Era
		Haydn was blessed with an unusually long life for someone of his time, as well as the good fortune of being employed for some thirty years by the Esterházy family, some of the richest musical patrons in Europe.
		Haydn is known to have used a clavichord in his early years, but by 1780 he had a piano available.
		Haydn composed it in 1789-1790 for his friend, Marianne von Genzinger, telling her that it "may be given out to no one else." But to his surprise, the sonata leaked out and found its way into print.
	www.carolinaclassical.com /articles/haydn.html (4217 words)

	Franz Josef Haydn
		Josef Haydn is one of the three great composers of the Classical period, which was centered in Vienna, and one of the most creative and resourceful composers in the history of music.
		Josef Haydn was born on March 31, 1732, to a musical family * living in modest circumstances in Rohrau, Austria, a rural community where Slavonic folk music was certainly to be heard.
		Haydn's gravestone is at its original place, today called Haydn Park in the 12th district of Vienna; there is a memorial in the house where he died in the 6th district of Vienna and a Haydn Museum in the house where he lived in Eisenstadt.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/1945/WSB/haydn.html (1750 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.
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	Franz Josef Haydn
		Haydn was born in the town of Rohrau on the Austrian-Hungarian border in 1732, the son of a German wagon maker, wheelwright and smallholding farmer.
		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.
		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.
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	Franz Josef Haydn biography - 8notes.com
		Haydn was born in 1732 in the Austrian village of Rohrau near the border with Hungary.
		Haydn is credited as the 'father' of the classical symphony and string quartet, and also wrote many piano sonatas, piano trios, divertmenti and masses, which became the foundation for the Classical style in these compositional types.
		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'.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/haydn.asp (4377 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.
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	MuseData.org Composer Page: Haydn, Franz Josef
		Haydn is best known for symphonies and chamber music for strings, but he also composed numerous operas, masses, and other sacred vocal music.
		The absence of a complete edition of Haydn's music (the first is still in progress) has left editors free to adopt many systems of identification.
		Movement titles and numbers are normally straightforward in Haydn's music, except for the fact that movements with sections in different tempos and/or meters are fairly common; the Hoboken catalogue respects these as one movement.
	www.musedata.org /scores/haydn (342 words)

	Michael Haydn - Josef Myslivecek
		Josef Myslivecek was born on March 9th 1737 in Prague.
		His father was a prosperous millowner and Josef and his twin brother Jachym were destined to take over the business.
		From childhood Josef showed a great interest in music and his father supplied him with a musical education as well.
	www.haydn.dk /mhc_myslivecek.php (268 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Haydn Biography
		Haydn was born in the town of Rohrau on the Austrian-Hungarian border in 1732, the son of a wagon maker.
		Haydn may or may not have invented the string quartet itself, but he consolidated the nascent tendencies of Rococco music into the modern sonata principle, and this became the vehicle for the most ambitious elevated musical thoughts well into the next century and even into our own.
		Haydn was unburdened by the nineteenth century idea of the artist and his historic legacy.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/haydn_bio.html (1327 words)

	Notes on Concerto in C Major for Violoncello and Orchestra (Franz Josef Haydn) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Haydn entered the employ of the Esterhazy court in 1761, before he was thirty years old.
		Haydn responded to this charge in part by drawing up a list of works he had composed in the Esterhazy service, a list that has come to be known as the "Draft Catalog" because it would later serve as the basis for the one he compiled near the end of his career.
		The concerto is a thoroughly appealing work, perfectly suited to its function: to entertain a sophisticated and discriminating noble-man. Haydn emphasizes good taste; in the first movement, the soloist's demonstrations of virtuoso technique are embedded in a framework of such elegance they are almost hidden.
	www.loudounsymphony.org /notes/haydn-cello (278 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Franz Josef Haydn
		Composer Franz Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria in 1732 and is probably known to be one of the greatest masters of classical music.
		Haydnâs works were known for his originality, liveliness, optimism and instrumental brilliance.
		Haydnâs output was so large that at the end of his life, he himself could not be sure how many works he had written.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=3866&source_type=C (467 words)

	George Frideric Handel and Josef Haydn
		Haydn's story also contains childhood obstacles, but his conquest of them was entirely of the bootstrap stripe.
		This set the kids up for joining the choir at the local church, from which both Josef and his brother, Michael (also destined to be a composer), graduated all the way to the main cathedral in Vienna.
		Haydn's accounts of his 10 years there hint at maltreatment, including borderline starvation -- the boys learned to literally sing for their supper by performing at the homes of wealthy Viennese patrons.
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	Franz Joseph Haydn - The Music Beat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Haydn (1732-1809) perfected both the symphony and the string quartet and was also a prolific composer of operas and choral works.
		Haydn's sense of invention and humor are trademarks of his style.
		Josef Haydn and the Classical Era - Haydn's life and contributions to music.
	musicbeat.searchbeat.com /classical/haydn.htm (702 words)

	BBC - Music / Profiles - Joseph Haydn
		Working in relative isolation and travelling little, Haydn was forced to be innovative, writing works of great transparency and melodic fluidity in most genres, including opera.
		Haydn on the benefits of his position at Eszterháza.
		Haydn's late masses represent the final fusion of vocal and symphonic music, and include the Harmoniemesse, Heiligmesse and Paukenmesse - Mendelssohn was to describe their sometimes operatic style as "scandalously gay"
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/haydn.shtml (425 words)

	Joseph Haydn Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Being isolated from other composers and trends in music until the latter part of his long life, he was, as he put it, "forced to become original".
		The development of sonata form into a subtle and flexible mode of musical expression, which became the dominant force in Classical musical thought, was based foremost on Haydn and those who followed his ideas.
		Another example of Haydn's inventiveness was his creation of the double variation form, that is variations on two alternating themes.
	popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Joseph_Haydn (4423 words)

	Concerts of the Providence Singers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To Haydn, evidence of the Creator’s magnificence was to be found in heaven and on earth, in the stars that lit the nighttime sky, and in the majesty of our planet’s landscape.
		Haydn completed this work in 1798, but the story of how he came to write it begins some time earlier, during his famous visits to England, in 1791-92 and again 1794-95.
		Haydn eventually decided that he was not sufficiently comfortable with the English language to set this text to music, but he took the libretto with him when he returned to Austria, in August 1795.
	www.providencesingers.org /Concerts/Oct04Concert.html (3676 words)

	Josef HAYDN, Max KÜHN piano concertos [AB]: Classical Reviews- August 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The two Haydn piano concertos played here are probably the best of Haydn's music in this format and appear to be well documented as being written by the Master himself.
		Haydn, unlike Mozart, was not a professional concert pianist and this probably accounts for his relative lack of interest in keyboard concertos.
		Max Kühn was born in Zurich in April 1896 and was active in that city as composer, organist, conductor and as a Teacher at the Zurich Music Academy.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Aug01/Haydn_Kuhn.htm (373 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: H: Haydn, Franz Joseph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Franz Josef Haydn - Birth and death dates, portrait, and hymn tunes with MIDI audio and NWC format scores from the Cyber Hymnal.
		Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) - Biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of church, oratorio, stage, vocal, orchestral, concerto, and keyboard compositions, and Naxos discography.
		Josef Haydn and the Classical Era - Haydn's life and contributions to his art with detailed studies of selected works by Charles Moss.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/H/Haydn,_Franz_Joseph (657 words)

	The New Classical Music Forums - Haydn Bio
		Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732—1809)-- Austrian composer, recognized as a dominant force in the development of the musical style of the classical era (circa 1750-circa 1820).
		During the 1790’s, Haydn he wrote the 12 so-called Salomon Symphonies as well as much chamber music, and a large number of songs with English texts.
		Haydn's works are distinguished for their innovation, vigor, sanguinity, and instrumental brilliance.
	classicalmusicforums.com /showthread.php?p=197 (331 words)

	Haydn
		Of humble origins, Haydn was born born into a family of twelve children in the village of Rohrau, near Vienna, on March 31, 1732 (the same year as George Washington).
		In the period 1792-1804 Haydn modified about 600 English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh melodies for voice and piano, sometimes with violin or violin and cello.
		Haydn is regarded as the 'father' of the stringquartet.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Musician/Haydn.html (1355 words)

	Franz Josef Haydn
		He was one of the last true court composers having worked for the Esterházy family, a family of enormously wealthy Hungarian princes, for over 30 years.
		This symphony, Haydn's last, was written for one of these appearances.
		Haydn is often credited with being the inventor of the symphony.
	www.musickit.com /resources/compomonhay.html (437 words)

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