Haydn, Joseph

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Basic data

  1. Haydn, Franz Joseph
  2. March 31, 1732 in Rohrau (Niederösterreich)
  3. May 31, 1809 in Wien
  4. Komponist
  5. Eisenstadt, Wien, Eszterháza

Iconography

(Source: Wikimedia)
1825 depiction of the house in Rohrau, Austria, where Joseph Haydn was born and spent his early childhood. The house has been repeatedly restored and is now a Haydn museum. (Source: Wikimedia)
St. Stephen's Cathedral. In the foreground is the Kapellhaus (demolished 1804), where Haydn lived as a chorister. (Source: Wikimedia)
A map showing locations where Haydn lived or visited (Source: Wikimedia)
Morzin Palace, Dolní Lukavice, Czech Republic (Source: Wikimedia)
Haydn's wife. Unauthenticated miniature attributed to Ludwig Guttenbrunn (Source: Wikimedia)
Haydn's in-town work venue: the city palace of the Esterházys on the Wallnerstrasse in Vienna (Source: Wikimedia)
Eszterháza, the palace built by Prince Nikolaus in rural Hungary, where Haydn spent much of his career (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Joseph Haydn by Christian Ludwig Seehas, 1785 (Source: Wikimedia)
Hanover Square Rooms, principal venue of Haydn's performances in London (Source: Wikimedia)
Haydn as portrayed by John Hoppner in England in 1791 (Source: Wikimedia)
Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, Haydn's most important patron (Source: Wikimedia)
The house in Vienna (now a museum) where Haydn spent the last years of his life (Source: Wikimedia)
The Bergkirche in Eisenstadt, site of Haydn's tomb (Source: Wikimedia)
Haydn's signature on a work of music: di me giuseppe Haydn ("by me Joseph Haydn"). He writes in Italian, a language he often used professionally. (Source: Wikimedia)
Laus Deo ("praise be to God") at the conclusion of a Haydn manuscript[t] (Source: Wikimedia)
Original copy of "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" in Haydn's hand (Source: Wikimedia)
Lithograph of Haydn from about 1830 (posthumous) by Adolph Friedrich Kunike. Landon describes the work as "a good likeness, showing him without his habitual wig (its source is uncertain—possibly the lost plaster bust by Anton Grassi [de], 1799)".[70] (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait by Ludwig Guttenbrunn, painted c. 1791–92, depicts Haydn c. 1770 (Source: Wikimedia)
A section of his string quartet, Op. 20 No. 4 showing interplay between the first violin and cello (Source: Wikimedia)
Wax sculpture of Haydn by Franz Thaler, c. 1800 (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Iosephvs Haydn, Mansfeld, Johann Ernst - 1772/1796 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Iosephvs Haydn, unbekannter Künstler - 1776/1825 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Joseph Haydn, Alexandre Chaponnier - 1803 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Jos. Haydn, Bollinger, Friedrich Wilhelm - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Joseph Haydn, 1800/1830 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Joseph Haydn, Sichling, Lazarus Gottlieb - 1827/1863 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Joseph Haydn, Wilhelm Krauskopf - 1862/1899 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Ioseph Haydn, Gustav Georg Endner - 1781/1824 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des J. Haydn, Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (zugeschrieben) - 1791/1840 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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