Hymne national autrichien haydn biography

Joseph Haydn was born as Franz Joseph Haydn on March 31, 1732 as a son of the cartwright and later market judge Mathias Haydn and his wife Anna Maria in the village Rohrau (Lower Austria).

They had twelve children but only six survived, except Franz Joseph the brothers Michael and Johann Evangelist and the three sisters Franziska, Anna Maria and Anna Katharina.

From 1738 he lived at a relative Johann Mathias Frankh in Hainburg and received a musical basic education.

Hymne national autrichien haydn biography

1740 Georg von Reutter, musical director at cathedral St.Stephan in Vienna, discovers him. He took Haydn to Vienna, where he was a choir singer for nine years. The treatment was not well, he often had had to starve.

1749 voice breaking began, Haydn could not reach the high tones.

Under a pretext he was dismissed from the choir of St.Stephan. He found accomodation at Johann Michael Spangler, a member of the cathedral choir, and lived on casual jobs as for instance violonist in ensembles and orchestras as well as music t