How Did Haydn Change The World

Haydn is an Australian composer who changed how classical style music in the 18th century, instituting the forms and styles for the string quartet and the symphony. His father builds/repairs wooden wheels, and his mother was a cook for the lords of the village before marriage. Haydn was only six years old when he left home to go with his cousin who was a choirmaster in the neighboring city of Hainburg, he also sang in the church choir, and learned to play numerous types of instruments, and gather good basic knowledge of music.

When Haydn was 8 when his life drastically changed. St. Stephen’s Cathedral’s musical director in Vienna had noticed Haydn’s talent and invited him to be a chorister at the most important church in the capital of Austria, and his parents accepted the offer; thus Haydn moved to Vienna in 1740. He acquired a lot of practical knowledge of music by continuous performances for nine years, but in a mishap, he had to work really hard to accomplish his duty as a chorister, and as his voice changed, he was let go from

both the choir school and cathedral choir. Haydn not having money and only a little bit of possessions, he found security for a while in an attic of a fellow musician and sustained himself with odd musical jobs. Meanwhile; he began a grueling self-instruction through the study of musical works-prominently of leading manuals of musical theory and those of Carl Emanuel Back. And with some luck of chance, Italian composer and singing teacher Nicola Porpora, accepted him as accompanist for voice lessons and corrected Haydn’s configurations, and he made progress with his energy and perseverance.
Haydn was introduced to Karl Joseph von Fürnberg, who is music loving Austrian nobleman, who he played chamber music for, and there he wrote his firs string quartets, therefore; with Fürnberg’s recommendation, he was engaged as chamber composer and musical director, and he supervised an orchestra of about 16 musicians for the Bohemian count Ferdinand Maximilian von Morzin, thus he wrote his first symphony as well as numerous divertimenti for strings and wind instruments.

Haydn was soon invited to enter the service of Prince Pál Antal Esterházy; there were the most famous and wealthiest families of the Austrian empire and are distinguished for records of supporting music, and because Prince Esterházy’s music director is aging and ailing, he appointed the rather unknown Haydn in 1761 to be the assistant conductor. Haydn oversaw and coached and conducted the singers in about daily recitals, and act as the chief of the musical

personnel.