Joseph Haydn: One Of The Greatest Composer During The Classical Period

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Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest composers during the Classical Period. He was born in the town of Rohrau which is located in Austria. His early years were very important to the beginning of his long life in music. His beginning in music started at such a young age that he carried throughout his entire life because of his love for it. Haydn’s young years formed him into the Classical composer that he is known for today. He really shaped an important part during the Classical Period, he was the creator of “the most influential structural principle in the history of music” ("Franz Joseph Haydn"). Haydn has many known works that he has composed. He has composed a total of 104 different companies through his life. He created so many other compositions …show more content…

Even during his late years of his life he continued to play and write music and made many public appearances. These parts of his life are very important in learning and knowing about him through his entire life.
Haydn’s first name is actually Franz Joseph Haydn and was born on March 31, 1809 in Austria. The begging of Haydn’s musical career was when he taught himself how to play the harp at a young age. He loved to listen to his father’s folk sings that he would sing to him. Then by the time he was eight years old he was invited to sing in the choir at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. He continued to sing in the choir where he learned how to play the violin and the piano. By the time he turned sixteen he was losing his voice and he left the choir. He became a musician who had played through the streets of Vienna. He was very popular in the streets but in the 1750s he finally was discovered by a noble family in Vienna. The Esterházys family was the noble Hungarian family who took him in and employed him as their court musician. He played music for all sorts of parties and events for the family. The family allowed him to …show more content…

He is mostly known for the 104 symphonies that he has created. All the earlier sympathies are still played and well known around the world but not as well-known as the final twelve. While he was traveling in London he created two sets of six different sympathies that he had created while there. These twelve sympathies are still very valid and often played in orchestras all over the world today. These twelve sympathies were the last ones created by Haydn and are the sympathies that he had mostly played till his death. These sympathies are still changing the way we look at music today. They are enthusiastic and intriguing to listen to by the upbeat rhythm at points and the amazing sounds created by the orchestral. His final works that he had composed before his death were the Creation and Seasons. These works were some of his most influential and important works. They changed the way that he had been composing his music as he was taking a break in his sympathies. His works made music change and grow into a more wide range of ideas and ways of looking at them. These works that he composed made ideas of using the sonata form more frequent through other music, like by Mozart. His music in these sympathies used very many different themes and used frequently through

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