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Joseph Haydn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Haydn and folk music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article discusses the influence of folk music on the work of the composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Haydn was of humble family, perhaps unusually so for a famous composer. His parents were work...
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Classical Music Composer Picture Gallery ... Haydn truly represents the classical period style of music in every way. Haydn composed over 100 symphonies. ... Haydn Resources...
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Famous composer (1732-1809) ... As a composer, Haydn will always be spoken of with reverence. He was the founder of the Viennese school of composition. His career began at the time when the accepted conventions of the Palestrinesque school of counterpoint had been abandoned as the last word in music.
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He studied on his own the standard textbooks on counterpoint and took occasional lessons from the noted Italian singing master and composer Nicola Porpora. In 1755 Haydn was engaged briefly by Baron Karl Josef von Furnberg, for whom he apparently composed his first string quartets.
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(Franz) Joseph Haydn ... The son of a wheelwright, he was trained as a choirboy and taken into the choir at St Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, where he sang from c.1740 to c.1750. He then worked as a freelance musician, playing the violin and keyboard instruments, accompanying for singing lessons given by the composer Porpora,
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Das Lied der Deutschen by F. J. Haydn (1732–1809) H. Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874) ... Sonate I, I - Allegro con brio by F. J. Haydn (1732–1809) Hob. XVI:27 n/a ... String Quartet in B-flat major by F. J. Haydn (1732–1809) Op. 76 No. 4...
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