The mature composer was by no means set in his ways he was flexible and receptive to new ideas. Haydn’s music, too, shows the impact of his young friend. Mozart declared that he had learned from Haydn how to write quartets and in 1785 he dedicated a superb set of six such works to his friend. They admired each other’s music beyond that of any other contemporary. In 1781 Haydn frequently visited Vienna in the prince’s retinue, and on these visits a close friendship developed between himself and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He remained in the Esterházy service until 1790. There Haydn was responsible for providing both vocal and instrumental music, including operas performed in the prince’s lavish theatre. Prince Nicholas Esterházy (18 December 1714 – 28 September 1790) was a Hungarian prince, a member of the famous Esterházy family, Haydn’s most important patron. Haydn stayed only briefly with von Morzin, as financial difficulties forced his patron to dismiss the orchestra. His name and compositions steadily became recognizable. His first symphonies as well as his earliest string quartets date from this period. Haydn was appointed to the small musical establishment of Count Morzin in 1759. Haydn made his first attempts at composition his early works included a Singspiel entitled The Lame Devil (Der krumme Teufel) (1752), a few keyboard sonatas and trios, and his first string quartet, written during the 1750s. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, where he went on to learn to play violin and keyboard. Education and early worksĪt age of 8 he was recruited to sing in the choir at St. Haydn showed immediate musical precocity and at the age of 5 was given into the care of a Hainburg schoolmaster called Franck, who taught him the rudiments of music. His father, Mathias Haydn, was a wheelwright, his mother, Maria Koller, before her marriage, was a cook for the lords of the village. Joseph Haydn, in full Franz Joseph Haydn, was born in Rohrau, Lower Austria, on March 31, 1732. Private service of the Esterházy family.
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