In 2009, the music world around the globe will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Haydn started his career as a member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir in Vienna, the city to which he also returned after working for the Princes Esterházy in today’s Burgenland and Hungary. Here in Vienna, he enjoyed his world renown for nineteen years. More
Joseph Haydn was a very beloved person, esteemed by his contemporaries, diligent, humorous, affable, and a straight shooter who was not spoiled by his steep climb from humble conditions into the highest social circles. More
To Mozart he was a fatherly friend, Beethoven was his most famous student. Numerous sites in Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Sopron attest to the life of the then and now so popular composer Joseph Haydn. More
„Papa Haydn“ enjoys unbowed popularity till these days: For example every year the Haydn Festival draws music lovers all over the world, Vienna's Theater an der Wien will stage a Haydn opera and more … More
Let yourself be carried away by Joseph Haydn’s music on a journey to the places where it was composed and with impressions from further Haydn venues in Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Sopron. More
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