Michael Haydn

before the choir enters, which, as you mentioned, it builds to so naturally and beautifully, the trombones, in a way, the three trombones introduce the choir together with trumpets and timpani, which enter together with the choir.

And that scoring, it's also unusual, but it reminds me of a piece that I did several years ago and that I learned about because of Mozart's Requiem, Michael Haydn's Requiem, which is in C minor.

And Mozart and his

father played in the premiere of that piece in Salzburg.

And Michael Haydn is Franz Josef Haydn's father? Younger brother.

Oh, younger brother,

yeah.

that...

Haydn offered the post of assistant conductor, accepted with delight.

on may first seventeen sixty one hayden received a contract of great length and elaborate detail which is too extensive to reproduce in all its particulars here however are a few of its specifications joseph hayden shall be considered and treated as a member of the household therefore his serene highness is graciously pleased to place confidence in his conducting himself as becomes an honorable officer of a princely house he must be temperate not showing himself overbearing toward his musicians but mild and lenient straightforward and composed it is especially to be observed that when the orchestra shall be summoned to perform before company the weiss kapellmeister and all the musicians shall appear in uniform and the said joseph haydn shall take care that he and all the members of his orchestra follow the instructions given and appear in white stockings white linen powdered and with either a queue or a tie-wig the said weiss kapellmeister shall be under obligation to compose such music as his serene highness may command and neither to communicate such compositions to any other person nor to allow them to be copied but he shall retain them for the absolute use of his highness and not compose for any other person without the knowledge and permission of his highness the said joseph haydn shall appear daily in the antechamber before and after midday and inquire whether his highness is pleased to order a performance of the orchestra the said weiss kapellmeister shall take careful charge of all music and musical instruments and be responsible for any injury that may occur to them from carelessness or neglect the said joseph haydn shall be obliged to instruct the female vocalists in order that they may not forget in the country what they have been taught with much trouble and expense in vienna and since the weißkapelmeister is proficient on various instruments he shall take care himself to practise on all that he is acquainted with a yearly salary of four hundred florins to be received in quarterly payments is hereby bestowed by his serene highness upon the said vice-kapellmeister in addition the said joseph haydn shall board at the officers table or receive half a gulden per day in lieu thereof his serene highness undertakes to keep joseph haydn in his service for at least three years and should he be satisfied with him he may look forward to being appointed kapellmeister eichenstadt was to be haydn's home for the next thirty years and in the service of the esterhazys he was to do much though by no means all of his greater work the palace of esterhaza was a modest place when the composer first joined the esterhazy staff compared with the gorgeous domain it became not very long afterwards haydn was if you will a servant he wrote music to order and went properly attired at certain times of day to receive the prince's directions dr geiringer says to await the commands of so exalted a personage as prince esterhazy was not humiliating for a man who had only recently risen from the depths of poverty even the fact of having to wear livery did not irk him we are told that old matthias haydn who died in seventeen sixty five still lived to experience the joy of seeing his son in the princely blue uniform braided with gold prince paul esterhazy was gathered to his fathers in seventeen sixty two haydn became the servitor of an esterhazy who artistically was greatly the superior of paul anton this one was prince nicholas surnamed the magnificent because of his love of splendor and the wealth which enabled him to indulge his most luxurious tastes he now undertook to erect a palace which rivalled versailles and which in fact was a glorified imitation of the french model esterhaza became a vast dream palace compared to the one where haydn had first assumed his new post it is impossible to give here even the faintest idea of the splendour and sumptuousness of this hungarian versailles an opera house and a theatre for puppet shows formed part of this superlative show place and concert rooms suited whatever kind of musical performance might be commanded by the prince when distinguished guests arrived the brilliancy of the festivities arranged for their enjoyment knew no limits the empress maria theresa visited the esterhazy estate in seventeen seventy three and a special booklet published in vienna gives an account of the festivities on that occasion which reads like something out of the arabian nights one of the musical works performed was haydn's little lyric comedy l'infidelita dell'usa the empress was so delighted that she is said to have remarked if i want to enjoy good opera i go to on the same evening there was a superb masked ball following which in the chinese pavilion the orchestra in brilliant uniforms played a number of pieces under haydn's leadership one of them the conductor's new maria theresa symphony the ball continued all night though the empress understandably enough had retired Next day she heard another Haydn opera for marionettes, Philemon and Baucus, which Maria Theresa enjoyed so much that she had the whole production sent to Vienna for her entertainment.

Haydn received the usual snuff-box filled with gold pieces.

He, in return, presented the imperial lady with three grouse he had shot down.

Mozart was no more.

And early in 1793 another blow struck Haydn.

Marianne von Gensinger died at 38. here was a calamity in its way rivalling the tragedy of mozart haydn's resilient nature recovered even from the death of marianne but a certain sweetness departed with her and never returned singularly enough there entered into his musical life about this time a force one might assume would have fortified him to bear the burden of his poignant losses beethoven arrived in vienna from bonn bearing the following message from count waldstein dear beethoven you are travelling to vienna in fulfilment of your long-cherished wish the tutelary genius of mozart is still weeping and bewailing the death of her favourite with the inexhaustible haydn she has found refuge but no occupation and now she is waiting to leave him and associate herself with someone else labor assiduously and receive mozart's spirit from the hands of haydn part three Part 4 of Joseph Haydn, Servant and Master by Herbert F. Pazer.

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Music of Michael Haydn next, younger brother of Franz Joseph Haydn who spent most of his life in Salzburg, the hometown of Mozart.

This is his Symphony No. 7 in E, performed by the Slovak Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Bodan Varkel.

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[on-hold music]Bohdan Warchal led the Slovak Chamber Orchestra in the Symphony No. 7 in E by Michael Haydn.

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