Austrian composer (1732–1809)
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The composer who spent decades running an orchestra in a remote Hungarian palace, cut off from the musical world — and in that isolation invented the blueprint for the symphony, the string quartet, and half the structural grammar classical music still uses.
Haydn came from a wheelwright's family in rural Austria and sang as a choirboy at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna before scraping by as a freelance musician. His break came when the aristocratic Esterházy family hired him as music director at their estate, Eszterháza, where he spent most of his working life conducting his own orchestra in near-total geographic isolation. That remoteness, he said, forced him to become original — and the music he wrote there, circulated in print across Europe, made him the continent's most celebrated composer by the time his patron died in 1790. Freed to trave…
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Give Him thanks, all ye His works so wondrous! Sing His honor, sing His glory, bless and magnify His Name! Jehovah’s praise endures forevermore, Amen, Amen!.
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