

Haydn conducts the premiere of ll ritorno di Tobia in Vienna. The opera house in Esterhazy Palace is opened with the premiere of Haydn’s opera Lo specziale Haydn buys a house in Eisenstadt and seldom visits Vienna. The Prince moves into the newly-built Esterhazy Palace (Esterhaza) at the south-eastern end of Lake Neusiedl and this now becomes the most important location for Haydn’s work. For this he composes overtures, symphonies, concerts, suites, minuets, serenades and operas.ĭeath of Head Conductor of the orchestra, Gregor Joseph Werner. Haydn succeeds in making the Prince’s orchestra into one of the best in Europe at the time. Prince Nicholas Esterhazy 1, Paul Anton’s brother, becomes Haydn’s new employer. Haydn principally in Eisenstadt.ĭeath of Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy, Haydn’s employer. Haydn enters the service of Prince Esterhazy in Vienna, at first as deputy conductor of his orchestra. Haydn marries Maria Anna Aloisia Appolonia Keller, the daughter of a Viennese wig maker, in St. It is here that Haydn’s First Symphony is written, as well as other compositions. He lives from time to time at the Count’s summer residence, the Palace of Lucavec near Pilsen. Haydn is musical director in the service of Count Ferdinand Maximilian Franz Morzin. Haydn later describes him as his only teacher. The Italian composer Nicola Antonio Porpora resides in Vienna.

In the early 1750s he lives as a tenant in a garret in Vienna’s 1st District. Largely self taught and working as a freelance artist in Vienna, Haydn composes ecclesiastical and operatic music, string trios, sonatas, dances, organ concertos, divertimenti for various arrangements and his first string quartet. Stephen’s, at other churches in Vienna and at the Viennese court. As a choirboy, he takes part in performances of church music at St. Stephen’s in Vienna Haydn receives a musical education, as well as lessons in other subjects. Joseph Haydn by Gemälde von Ludwig Guttenbrunn, 1770ģ1st March (Franz) Joseph Haydn is born in Rohrau on the Leitha (Lower Austria) Today there is a museum there which commemorates both Joseph Haydn and his brother, Michael.Ĭhoirboy (Sangerknabe) in the choir school of St.
