![]() ![]() ![]() It was for this reason that they accepted a proposal from their relative Johann Matthias Franck, the schoolmaster and choirmaster in Hainburg, that Haydn be apprenticed to Franck in his home to train as a musician. 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. According to Haydn's later reminiscences, his childhood family was extremely musical, and frequently sang together and with their neighbors. However, Matthias was an enthusiastic folk musician, who during the journeyman period of his career had taught himself to play the harp. Haydn's mother, the former Maria Koller, had previously worked as a cook in the palace of Count Harrach, the presiding aristocrat of Rohrau. His father was Matthias Haydn, a wheelwright who also served as "Marktrichter", an office akin to village mayor. Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in Rohrau, Austria village near the Hungarian border. Haydn had a third brother, Johann Evangelist Haydn, a tenor singer. ![]() Joseph Haydn was the brother of Michael Haydn, himself a highly regarded composer at the court of Archbishop-Prince Hieronymous von Colloredo who also had in his employ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and father Leopold Mozart. 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". The name "Franz" was not used in the composer's lifetime scholars, along with an increasing number of music publishers and recording companies, now use the historically more accurate form of his name, rendered in English as " Joseph Haydn".Ī life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Eszterházy family on their remote estate. Joseph Haydn (31 March or 1 April 1732–) was a leading composer of the Classical period, called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet". ![]()
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