Haydn

The pianist's performance of a Haydn sonata threw the woman into a rapture bordering on frenzy.

In the year when Mozart, was born both Handel and Haydn were living.

Handel and Haydn were living when Mozart was born.

Joseph Haydn, the composer, was born in 1732, the same year as George Washington, the first president of the United States of America.

Where and in what year was Joseph Haydn born?

In what year did Haydn die?

Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, a little Austrian village not far from Hainburg.

Two years ago I rashly accepted a commission from Tring Chamber Music and Paul Barritt, leader of the Hallé orchestra, to write poems to read between movements of Haydn's quartet Opus 51, which meditates on Christ's "Seven Last Words". Haydn, commissioned in 1785 by Cádiz cathedral, wrote this music to go between words so it's hard to perform and listen to without some.