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Title: Joseph Haydn


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Joseph Haydn
  • 1732-1809
  • Born before and died after Mozart
  • Born in Austria
  • Trained at a young age
  • Sent to Vienna to study as a choirboy in the
    Cathedral of St. Stephen

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Joseph Haydn
  • Voice changed
  • Rejected from St. Stephen
  • Gave music lessons and took odd jobs
  • Taught himself composition
  • 1761 (age 29) Haydn entered the service of the
    Esterhazys
  • Rich Hungarian nobility

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Esterhazy Family
  • Palace included
  • Opera house
  • Theater
  • Two concert halls
  • 126 guest rooms

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Haydn
  • Skilled servant
  • Compose all music requested by patron
  • Conduct orchestra
  • Coach singers
  • Oversee instruments and library

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Haydn
  • Weekly
  • 2 concerts
  • 2 opera performances
  • Daily miscellaneous music
  • Smaller ensembles (chamber music)

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Haydn Esterhazys
  • Servant, but . . .
  • Steady income
  • All music got performed
  • Unusual today

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Haydn
  • Haydns music became popular all over Europe
  • Also appeared in London
  • Became celebrity
  • Still a servant
  • Died at age 77!

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Haydn
  • Pioneer in developing
  • Symphony
  • String Quartet
  • Influenced Mozart and Beethoven
  • Much of his music has a folk flavor
  • Sprinkled with folk songs from his childhood

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Haydn
  • Most important part of his output
  • Symphonies (104)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • 1756-1791

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Mozart
  • Child prodigy
  • Born in Salzburg, Austria
  • Father, Leopold
  • Also a musician
  • Greedy with his goldmine of a son

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Mozart
  • By age 6, played . . .
  • Harpsichord
  • Violin
  • Composing short pieces

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Mozart
  • Age 8
  • Wrote a symphony
  • Age 11
  • Wrote an oratorio
  • Age 12
  • Wrote an opera

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Mozart
  • Ages 6-15
  • On constant tour of Europe with his father and
    sister
  • Freak show of child prodigies

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Mozart
  • Father court musician
  • Mozart granted a minor position as violinist in
    the court orchestra (at age 15)
  • Off and on for about 10 years
  • Struggled to the end of his life to find a
    position as court composer

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Mozart
  • Not very successful as adult musician
  • Child prodigy success
  • Treated as a star
  • Spoiled
  • Expected same treatment as an adult
  • Spent a lot of time scheming to make it big, not
    as much time working

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Mozart
  • Age 25
  • Moved to Vienna
  • Freelance musician
  • Worked for himself
  • Big hit writing operas
  • The Abduction from the Seraglio (harem)
  • The Marriage of Figaro
  • Don Giovanni

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Mozart
  • Versatile
  • Wrote masterpieces in every form of the time
  • Symphonies
  • Concertos
  • Chamber music
  • Operas

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Mozart
  • Wrote very quickly
  • Amazing mind
  • Last three symphonies (39, 40, 41)
  • Completed in his head before ever writing a note
    on paper
  • Finished in 6 weeks!
  • This is incredibly fast

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Mozart
  • Virtuoso pianist
  • Perfected the piano concerto
  • Written for his own performances

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Mozart
  • Most of his operas are comedies
  • Warped sense of humor
  • Bathroom humor lasted well into adulthood

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Mozart
  • Commissioned to write a requiem
  • Mass for the dead
  • He was dying himself
  • Didnt finish the requiem
  • Subject of movie Amadeus
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