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This document provides biographical information about two famous classical era composers: Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It summarizes that Haydn was a vice-Kapellmeister and later Kapellmeister for the Esterházy family in Austria where he helped develop sonata form. It notes he also visited London twice where he composed 12 symphonies. Mozart is described as a child prodigy who performed across Europe before working as a musician in Salzburg and later freelancing in Vienna. Both composers are credited with virtuosic works across many genres including symphonies, operas, masses and solo concertos that remained in the standard repertoire.

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This document provides biographical information about two famous classical era composers: Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It summarizes that Haydn was a vice-Kapellmeister and later Kapellmeister for the Esterházy family in Austria where he helped develop sonata form. It notes he also visited London twice where he composed 12 symphonies. Mozart is described as a child prodigy who performed across Europe before working as a musician in Salzburg and later freelancing in Vienna. Both composers are credited with virtuosic works across many genres including symphonies, operas, masses and solo concertos that remained in the standard repertoire.

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HWM - 8

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)


• 1760-61 Music director (Kapellmeister) for Count Morzin
• 1760-66 Vice-Kapellmeister
• Prince Paul Anton II Esterházy (1711-65)
• Nikolaus I “The Magnificent” Esterházy (1714-1790)
• Summer palace in Eisenstadt (Austria)
• 1766-1790 Kapellmeister at Esterházy
• Develops sonata form (sonata-allegro form, first-movement form) to the standard as we
know it today
• 1791-92 and 94-95 London visits
• Twelve public symphonies (London symphonies)
• 1796 Kapellmeister at Esterházy (Nikolaus II)

Compositions
Over 750 works, including
• 106 symphonies (published in Paris: 82-87; London 93-104)
Symphony 45 in F#-minor (“Farewell”) IV: Finale. Presto, Adagio
Symphony 94 in G major (“Surprise”). II. Theme and variations
• 13 operas, 1 Singspiel, 3 oratorios (Die Schöpfung, & Die Jahreszeiten)
• 62 piano sonatas
• 83 string quartets
• 44 piano trios (piano, cello and violin or flute)
• 14 Masses
• 16 ouvertures
• 150+ works for baryton
• 340+ arrangements of Scottish and Welsh songs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)


• Performs keyboard and violin at early age, first composition at 5
• 1762-1773 Performances at courts and musical centers in Europe: Germany, Vienna, Prague,
Paris, London, The Hague, Italy
• Meets Johann Christian Bach (the London Bach)
• 1773-81 Musician at the court of Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg
• 1777-78 In search of work in Paris and other cities
• 1781 Settles in Vienna as freelancer
• Keyboard player and composer of operas and (piano) concertos
• Meets Haydn, studies Bach and Handel
• Dec. 5, 1791 dies of an unknown illness
• Mozart and Haydn are the first canonized composers: Their works have become examplary
• Virtually all of Mozart’s works have remained on the repertoire

Compositions
Over 625 works, including
• Singspiele (German comic opera with spoken dialogue), such as
• Bastien und Bastienne (K. 50), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (K. 384), Die Zauberflöte (K. 620)
• Italian opera buffa (comic opera): middle-class characters, comic plots, attractive melodies, such
as
• Le nozze di Figaro (K. 492), Don Giovanni (K. 527), Così fan tutte (K. 588)
• Italian opera seria, such as
• Mitridate (K. 87), Idomeneo (K 366), La Clemenza di Tito (K. 621)
• 41 Symphonies (final three written without being commissioned)
Symphony No. 39 in E flat Major (K. 543), II. Andante con moto
• 27 Concertos for piano, 5 for violin, 4 for horn, 7 for woodwinds
Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major (1783, K. 417), III. Rondo
• 18 Piano sonates, 16 Variations, other keyboard works
12 Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, maman” (K. 265)
Piano sonata No. 16 in C (K. 545), I. Allegro (see HWM 5)
• 36 Violin sonatas, 23 string quartets, 6 string quintets
• Serenades, divertimenti, marches, dances
• 18 Masses, including the Requiem Mass (K. 626)

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