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Joseph Haydn: Living
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Haydn started the job of conducting a small orchestra in the court of Count von Morzin. From the two years he kept this position, Haydn's overall salary was $200, a meager amount.
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Despite the unpleasant aspects of life in Hainburg, Haydn made significant musical progress. He learnt to play musical instruments and became a very good singer. Long after he left Hainburg, Haydn recalled:
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During his last decade in private service, a most important influence on Haydn's music arose from his contact with Mozart. This relationship dates from the time Mozart took up residence in Vienna in 1781; in the next years Haydn came to know him during his trips to Vienna, and they admired each other's music beyond that of any other contemporary. Haydn commented often on Mozart's remarkable gifts and complained bitterly over the lack of recognition and the absence of any permanent post for Mozart comparable to the one Haydn enjoyed. When an official of Prague asked him for an opera in 1787, 2 months after the premiere of Mozart's Don Giovanni there, Haydn declined, saying in part: "It is hardly possible for anyone to stand beside the great Mozart. For if I could impress Mozart's inimitable works as deeply, and with that musical understanding and keen feeling with which I myself grasp and feel them, upon the soul of every music lover … the nations would compete for the possession of such a jewel within their borders."
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Vermutlich 1757 erhielt Haydn seine erste wichtige Stelle als Musikdirektor des Grafen Karl von Morzin auf Schloss Lukavec bei Pilsen. Auf dieses Jahr datierte Haydn seine erste in Morzins Diensten komponierte Sinfonie. Als Musikdirektor dirigierte er ein kleines Orchester, und für dieses Ensemble schrieb er seine ersten Sinfonien. Streichtrios, Cassationen und Streichquartette verbreiteten sich bald, oft in Abschriften, in den Druck gelangten sie nicht.
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Between visits Haydn was for a time the teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven found Haydn unsatisfactory as a teacher and sought help from others; the relationship between the two was sometimes rather tense. For discussion of their relationship, see Beethoven and his contemporaries[26].
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Vielleicht mehr als jeder andere Komponist ist Haydn bekannt für die Scherze, die er in seine Musik steckte. Das berühmteste Beispiel ist der plötzliche laute Akkord in der Sinfonie Nr. 94 „mit dem Paukenschlag“, aber andere sind vielleicht lustiger: die vorgetäuschten Enden in den Quartetten Op. 33 Nr. 2 und Op. 50 Nr. 3 oder die bemerkenswerte rhythmische Illusion, die er in dem Trio Op. 50 Nr. 1 platzierte.
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