The young Haydn greatly looked forward to performances before aristocratic audiences, where the singers sometimes had the opportunity to satisfy their hunger by devouring the refreshments.
Like Franck before him, Reutter did not always bother to make sure Haydn was properly fed. Haydn passed his audition with Reutter, and soon moved off to Vienna, where he worked for the next nine years as a chorister, the last four in the company of his younger brother Michael. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, who was touring the provinces looking for talented choirboys. There is reason to think that Haydn's singing impressed those who heard him, because two years later (in 1740) he was brought to the attention of Georg von Reutter, the director of music in The people of Hainburg were soon hearing him sing treble parts in the church choir.
However, he did begin his musical training there, and soon was able to play both harpsichord and violin. Life in the Franck household was not easy for Haydn, who later remembered being frequently hungry as well as constantly humiliated by the filthy state of his clothing. Haydn, at 6, therefore went off with Franck to Hainburg (seven miles away) and never again lived with his parents. In Hainburg, that Haydn be apprenticed to Franck in his home to train as a musician. It was for this reason that they accepted a proposal from their relative Johann Matthias Franck, the schoolmaster and choirmaster Haydn's parents noticed that their son was musically talented and knew that in Rohrau he would have no chance to obtain any serious musical training. According to Haydn's later reminiscences, his childhood family was extremely musical, and frequently sang together and with their neighbors. However, Mathias was an enthusiastic folk musician, who during the journeyman period of his career had taught himself to play the harp. Haydn's mother, the former Maria Koller, had previously worked as a cook in the palace of Count Harrach, the presiding aristocrat of Rohrau. He was the brother of Michael Haydn, himself a highly regarded composer, and Johann Evangelist Haydn, a tenor.įranz Joseph's father, Mathias Haydn, was a wheelwright who also served as Marktrichter, an office akin to village mayor. 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. A life-long resident of Austria-Hungary, Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732, Rohrau, Austria – May 31, 1809) spent most of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian Esterházy family on their remote estate.
0 kommentar(er)
