However, a younger contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, brought his genius to Haydn's ideas and applied them to two of the major genres of the day: opera, and the virtuoso concerto.

* Richard Strauss's standard repertory opera Ariadne auf Naxos was preceded by a L ' Arianna each by Claudio Monteverdi and Carlo Agostino Badia, by an opera Ariadne ( 1691 ) by German composer Johann Georg Conradi, and by non-operatic Ariadne auf Naxos works including a cantata based on the Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg poem and Jiri Antonin Benda's melodrama Ariadne auf Naxos ( Benda ), and by Joseph Haydn's cantata Arianna a Naxos.

* June 9 – Joseph Haydn's opera Orpheus and Eurydice given its world premiere at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Beethoven, a student of Haydn's in Vienna, used unusually daring harmonies and rhythm and composed numerous pieces for piano, violin, symphonies, chamber music, string quartets and an opera.

Pleyel apparently also wrote at least part of the overture of Haydn's opera Das abgebrannte Haus, from about the same time.

The Academy has also recorded Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Handel's Orlando and Rinaldo, Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Haydn's L ' anima del filosofo and over 200 other recordings for Decca, Harmonia Mundi ( France ), EMI and the new live recording label Wigmore Hall Live.

In 2001 she made a long-awaited Royal Opera House début, taking the roles of Euridice and the Genio in the London stage première of Haydn's L ' anima del filosofo.

* Kurt L Schuster: Performing Joseph Haydn's Divertimento a quattro, opus 2, no.

Notable productions were Lulu ( 1962 ; conducted by Karl Böhm, staged by Otto Schenk, designed by Caspar Neher, starring Evelyn Lear ), Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice ( 1967 ; conducted by Richard Bonynge, staged by Rudolf Hartmann, with Nicolai Gedda, Joan Sutherland ), Fidelio ( 1970 ; conducted by Leonard Bernstein, staged by Schenk, with Gwyneth Jones, James King ), Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria ( 1971 ; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, staged by Federik Mirdita ), L ' elisir d ' amore ( 1973 ; conducted by Silvio Varviso, staged by Schenk, with Nicolai Gedda, Reri Grist, Eberhard Wächter ), Die Fledermaus ( 1975 ; conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, staged by Michael Kehlmann, with Wiesław Ochman, Reri Grist, Elizabeth Harwood, Waldemar Kmentt ), La clemenza di Tito ( 1976 ; conducted by Julius Rudel, staged by Mirdita, with Werner Hollweg, Teresa Berganza, Arleen Augér, Edda Moser ), Fierrabras ( 1988 ; conducted by Claudio Abbado, staged by Ruth Berghaus, with Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, László Polgár ), Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( 1989 ; conducted by Harnoncourt, staged by Ursel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann ), Don Giovanni ( 1990 ; conducted by Abbado, staged by Luc Bondy, with Ruggero Raimondi, Karita Mattila, Marie McLaughlin, Cheryl Studer ), Le nozze di Figaro ( 1991 ; conducted by Abbado, staged by Jonathan Miller, with Ruggero Raimondi, Marie McLaughlin, Cheryl Studer ) and the world premiere of Adriana Hölszky's Die Wände ( 1995 ; conducted by Ulf Schirmer, staged by Hans Neuenfels ).

In 2009, in honor of the bicentennial of Joseph Haydn's death, Gotham Chamber Opera presented the New York City stage premiere of Haydn's L ' isola disabitata ( Desert Island ), in a new production by Mark Morris at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College., rev.

There she was responsible for the musical direction of numerous productions, notably Pelléas et Mélisande, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La Finta Giardiniera, Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz, Orfeo by Monteverdi, Les Brigands by Offenbach, L ' Heure espagnole and L ' Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel, Haydn's Il Mondo della luna, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, The Rape of Lucretia by Britten and Le Chapeau de paille d ' Italie by Nina Rota, whilst La Station Thermale ( recorded by Ricordi ) and Les Oiseaux de Passage by Fabio Vacchi and Dédale by Hugues Dufourt ( recorded on CD by MFA / Radio France ) are among her world creations.

In 1968, she sang in a production of Haydn's " L ' infedeltà delusa " at Yale University.

Her operatic debut, in 1982, was as Sandrina in Haydn's L ' infedeltà delusa with the Mostly Mozart Festival.

Nicknamed " The Philosopher " (" Der Philosoph "), it is the most widely programmed of Haydn's early symphonies.

* The finale of Haydn's String Quartet No. 53 in D major (" The Lark "), Op.

Author and classical music critic David Hurwitz describes Joseph Haydn's choral and chamber orchestra piece, The Creation, composed in 1798, as space music, both in the sense of the sound of the music, (" a genuine piece of ' space music ' featuring softly pulsating high violins and winds above low cellos and basses, with nothing at all in the middle ...

Claude-François-Marie Rigolet ( the Comte d ' Ogny ) commissioned Joseph Haydn's six " Paris Symphonies ", Nr.

Nicola Porpora, ( much later to be Haydn's master ), set the work to music, and the success was so great that the famed Roman prima donna, Marianna Bulgarelli, " La Romanina ", sought out Metastasio, and took him on as her protégé.

For Final Fantasy VII, Hamauzu was the synthesizer programmer for the rendition of Joseph Haydn's " The Creation ", and provided bass vocals in the eight-person chorus for " One-Winged Angel ".

* " The Clock ", another name for Haydn's Symphony No. 101

They were written in the earlier part of Haydn's career, from 1762 to 1775.

English Elizabethan and Stuart composers had often evolved their music from folk themes, the classical suite was based upon stylised folk-dances and Joseph Haydn's use of folk melodies is noted.

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

He witnessed first hand his son's success as a performer, and on February 12 heard Joseph Haydn's widely-quoted words of praise, upon hearing the string quartets Wolfgang dedicated to him, " Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name: He has taste, and, furthermore, the most profound knowledge of composition.

Rostropovich is also well known for his interpretations of standard repertoire works, including Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor and Haydn's cello concerti in C and D, Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto and the two cello concerti of Shostakovich.

It is thought that this practice was quite intentional on Haydn's part and was related to the sonority of the instruments of Haydn's day: the piano was fairly weak and " tinkling " in tone, and benefited from the tonal strengthening of other instruments.

The Alma Mater song, also played at sporting events from time to time, is " Glory Hast Thou ," written to the tune of Haydn's " Austrian Hymn ," and better known as the tune used for " Deutschlandlied ," the German national anthem.

Particularly in Haydn's early works it is argued that the inversions of harmony from the occasional crossings of the bass and viola line imply a double bass ; the question is not settled, however.

Stylistically Stamitz's music is not too far from the works of the young Mozart or, for that matter, from Haydn's middle period.

The horns play a prominent role in all but the second movement, and Haydn's choice of E flat major may have been dictated by the fact that the valveless horns of the time sounded best when played as E flat instruments ( that is, with E flat crooks inserted ).

Another version of the piece, well known in Haydn's time, has three movements with the second movement of the original version coming first, followed by a different movement that is marked andante grazioso in 3 / 8 and concluding with the same finale as in the original version.

The second movement is thought to be spurious, which has led to the belief that this arrangement is not Haydn's own.

The piece is typical of Haydn's Sturm und Drang ( storm and stress ) period.

The second movement, unusually, is a minuet in E minor and trio in E major ; thus the work is one of the few symphonies of the Classical era to place the Minuet second ( others include Haydn's 32nd and 37th, and his brother Michael's 15th and 16th ).

It is quite contrapuntal, and ends in E minor rather than finishing in a major key as was usual in most other minor key works of the time ( including Haydn's next symphony, the Symphony No. 45, The Farewell ).

It is thought, however, that a number of Joseph Haydn's earlier symphonies may be program music ; for example, the composer once said that one of his earlier symphonies represents " a dialogue between God and the Sinner ".

Haydn's gentle sense of humor is indulged here as the newly created creatures appear, each with musical illustration: lion, tiger, stag, horse, cattle, sheep, insects, and worms.

Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater is considered " a treasury of refined and graceful melody ".

The timpani part in the autograph score is not in Haydn's hand, but it is quite possibly authentic: he may have written it on a separate sheet, with somebody else adding it to the score at a later date.

Neither Handel's, nor Haydn's, nor Mozart's passage is an exact harmonic match to Pachelbel's, the latter two both deviating in the last bar, and may in fact have arisen more prosaically from one of the more obvious harmonizations of a descending major scale.

A more likely inspiration was the similar rhythmic parody of Joseph Haydn's " Clock " Symphony.

The influence of Haydn's chamber writing suggested similar possibilities for winds, and advancements in the building of these instruments in that period made them more useful in small ensemble settings, leading composers to attempt smaller combinations.

This shows Haydn's sense of humor -- similar to the 2nd movement of the Surprise Symphony.