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Franz Joseph Haydn
ByVictor Lopez
Bruno Gonzalezand
Angel Arraras
Index
• Life (1/2)• Life (2/2)• Family• Rohrau (Austria)• Works (1/2)• Works (2/2)• Curiosities
Life (1/2)
• He was born in Rohrau (Austria) the 31 of March of 1732
• He started his musical career at the age of 6 years
• In 1740 he moved to Viena for being a chorister* in the St. Stephen Cathedral
• In 1749 he madured physically and he wasn´t able to sing in a children choir and he become a freelancer*
* A person who sings in a choir* A person who works without bosses or masters
Life (2/2)
• After his works as freelancer he started to work for some aristocrats like Countess Thun, Baron Carl Josef Fürnberg and Count Morzin
• In 1766 he become Kapellmeister* of the Esterházy family
* The music director of a orchestra
Family
• His father was Mathias Haydn a wheelwright* and he sometimes worked as Marktrichter*
• Haydn´s mother, Maria, was a cook in the palace of Count Harrach
• His brother was Johann Michael Haydn. He was also an Austrian composer * Someone who makes and repairs wooden
wheels
* A job similar to a village mayor
Rohrau
• This village was the place of birth of Haydn• It´s situated in Austria near the border with
Hungary• While he was living in Rohrau the pressiding
aristocrat was Count Harrach
Works (1/2)
• Some people thought he was the father of the simphony and some others thought so of the string quartet
• The most important characteristic of his music was that he made huge ongs with very simple motifs
Works (2/2)
• He was an expert in sonatas and string quartets but he also wrote some concertos, masses etc…
• His sonatas are recopilated in the Hoboken Catalogue
Curiosities
• He had a great sense of humor, because he was always making jokes, even in some concerts
• He had an ilness called smallpox* and his face was deformed but in spite of that he had the love of some pretty women
* a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules