Classification · German and Austrian area
1737 – 1806
Rohrau (Austria) - Salzburg
Review
Joseph Haydn's younger brother was also a singer in St. Stephen of Vienna. After a few years as a chapel teacher in Gran Varadino (now Oradea, Romania), he entered in 1763 the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg, where he remained for more than four decades and succeeded Mozart as an organist of the court and the cathedral.
He was overshadowed in religious music: his Réquiem in do under 1771 left a mark on Mozart's. He also wrote about forty symphonies; one of them circulated for centuries as the «Symphony No. 37» from Mozart, who had only added an introduction. Among his students was Carl Maria von Weber.
Main works
- Réquiem en do minor «Pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo» (1771)
- Missa Hispanica (1786)
- Symphony in the big sun (the old one «No 37» of Mozart, 1783)
- Concert for a trumpet in a major
- Concert for violin in case bemol major
- Chintes of rope
- Miscellaneous and serenade
