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Rohrau, Austria (1732 – 1809)

(Franz) Joseph Haydn (31 March or 1 April 1732–31 May 1809) was a leading composer of the classical period, called the “Father of the symphony” and “Father of the string quartet”.

The name “Franz” was not used in the composer’s lifetime; scholars, along with an increasing number of music publishers and recording companies, now use the historically more accurate form of his name, rendered in English as “Joseph Haydn”.

A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Eszterházy family on their remote estate. Being isolated from other composers and trends in music until the later part of his long life, he was, as he put it, “forced to become original”.

Joseph Haydn was the brother of Michael Haydn, himself a highly regarded composer at the court of Archbishop-Prince Hieronymous von Colloredo who also had in his employ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and father Leopold Mozart. Haydn had a third brother, Johann Evangelist Haydn, a tenor singer.

Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in Rohrau, Austria village near the Hungarian border. His father was Matthias Haydn, a wheelwright who also served as “Marktrichter”, an office akin to village mayor. Haydn’s mother, the former Maria Koller, had previously worked as a cook in the palace of Count Harrach, the presiding aristocrat of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an enthusiastic folk musician, who during the journeyman period of his career had taught himself to play the harp.

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hailmarduk666 wrote:
8 days ago

"Franz Joseph Haydn" is historically inaccurate. He never called himself Franz. Only Joseph, and signed his works Giuseppe Haydn which is Joseph in Italian...I believe that it should be corrected in the Suggest a correction option.

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ValtielXIII wrote:
22 days ago

"good music", ha!? My God ... It's simply diviiiiiiiiiiiiiine! @_@

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a1g wrote:
27 days ago

good music

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Velesslavitsa wrote:
December 2009

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..."

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Gamester wrote:
November 2009

Hey! Care to join the new "Classical and Romantic Music" group! Check it out and join if you like! :o)

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tihsymtae wrote:
November 2009

Huh?

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Levittoux wrote:
September 2009

I hate last.fm suggestions. I really hate it! I have properly tagged "Sonny Boy Williamson", but last changes it to "John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson" and then auto-correct to "Sonny Boy Williamson". When I switch off auto-correction, because I want Joseph Haydn I have wrongly scrobbled sonny Boy Williamson. It's ridiculous!

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Seavas wrote:
June 2009

Using the number the Hoboken index would probably be the easiest solution, the Hob. XVI/49 Sonata would be No. 49 and so on.

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Taxes wrote:
June 2009

It's just going to redirect everyone with Franz Joseph to Joseph when it's done, no one will need to change his tags. Anyway, no surprise that he's one of the few composers with this kind of problem, the tagging of his works is messy as fuck tooo (take the sonatas, the numbering is horribly inconsistent, No. 60 for someone is No. 50 for someone else...)

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Maelkoch wrote:
June 2009

Fu bitches complaining about the naming policy; it's better to gather all the scrobbles under one artist entry, and unless you manage to convince the 200,000+ listeners to change their ID3-tags, I'm sticking with Franz Joseph. >8p

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marksmith85 wrote:
May 2009

It's "necz0r" (Smith, Mark: "necz0r", last.fm (Accessed 17:15 GMT 28/05/2009), www.last.fm). Some people don't take names seriously enough.

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Becko22 wrote:
May 2009

lol @ nec0r

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necz0r wrote:
May 2009

Although he is sometimes called "Franz Joseph Haydn", the name "Franz" was not used in the composer's lifetime and is avoided by scholars. (Webster, James: "Haydn, Joseph", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 January 2007), http://www.grovemusic.com) Now stop auto-“correcting” my Haydn into something that is wrong...

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zunari wrote:
May 2009

http://www.last.fm/group/NO+MORE+ON+TOUR+JOKES

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Taxes wrote:
May 2009

I shouldn't have waited so long to listen to Haydn, I'm only starting to realize just how much I missed out by avoiding him earlier on. If anyone ever gets the possibility to hear Anton Kuerti's recording of the sonatas, they come with my recommendations, it's very nicely played.

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romkeH wrote:
April 2009

but... what about Geremy?

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Pronitron wrote:
April 2009

Yes sorry I'm not quite sure why I wrote Geremy. Jeremy Of course :) And why should I delete the post? After all "Never regret anything that once made you smile" :)

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My_Empire wrote:
April 2009

Please delete and repost with the spelling fixed. Jeremy. Jeremy. Jeremy. Jeremy. 'Geremy' would be pronounced 'Geh-ra-mee'. Oh dear. He does look a little like Paxo - without the snarl. :)

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Pronitron wrote:
April 2009

Has anyone else notice that Haydn looks alot like Geremy Paxman? And how is he on tour? rofl.

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hollabackitsobi wrote:
April 2009

Joseph Haydn is the real tag, for reasons outlined in the second paragraph of the bio. Please vote for a change in the lower right area of this page, and change your tags as well while you're at it.

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