La Folia was the most monumental set of orchestral variations before Brahms ' Variations on a Theme by Haydn.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

The period is sometimes referred to as the era of Viennese Classic or Classicism (), since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Salieri, and Ludwig van Beethoven all worked at some time in Vienna, and Franz Schubert was born there.

Forms such as the concerto and sonata were more heavily defined and given more specific rules, whereas the symphony was created in this period ( this is popularly attributed to Joseph Haydn ).

The first great master of the style was the composer Joseph Haydn.

This opportunity was not wasted, as Haydn, beginning quite early on his career, sought to press forward the technique of building ideas in music.

It was during this decade that public taste began, increasingly, to recognize that Haydn and Mozart had reached a higher standard of composition.

One composer who was influential in spreading the more serious style that Mozart and Haydn had formed is Muzio Clementi, a gifted virtuoso pianist who tied with Mozart in a musical " duel " before the emperor in which they each improvised and performed their compositions.

When Haydn and Mozart began composing, symphonies were played as single movements — before, between, or as interludes within other works — and many of them lasted only ten or twelve minutes ; instrumental groups had varying standards of playing, and the continuo was a central part of music-making.

In 1790, just before Mozart's death, with his reputation spreading rapidly, Haydn was poised for a series of successes, notably his late oratorios and " London " symphonies.

Hummel studied under Haydn as well ; he was a friend to Beethoven and Schubert.

The music was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797 as an anthem for the birthday of the Austrian Emperor Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire.

The melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

Haydn was instructed to compose an anthem which could rival in merit the British " God save the King ".

The earliest known concerto for double bass was written by Joseph Haydn ca. 1763, and is presumed lost in a fire at the Eisenstadt library.

Bassist Domenico Dragonetti was a prominent musical figure and an acquaintance of Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven.

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

Beethoven had arrived in Vienna in 1792 to study with Joseph Haydn but quickly became infuriated when his work was not being given attention or corrected.

When Beethoven was finished studying with Albrechtsberger he decided to get a few more tips and pointers, so to speak, from Haydn.

He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

In 1815, Boston's Handel and Haydn Society was founded, in 1842 the New York Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic were formed, and in 1858, the Hallé Orchestra was formed in Manchester.

Much of the most widely admired piano repertoire in classical music, for example, that of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, was composed for a type of instrument ( the fortepiano ) that is rather different from modern instruments this music is normally performed on today.

" He was an outstanding virtuoso of the keyboard, with a reasonably wide repertory of surviving works, including twenty symphonies, the later ones influenced by Haydn and Mozart ; and hardly a genre of vocal music was neglected by him

Beethoven had well-known falling outs with his one-time teacher, Joseph Haydn, with the piano virtuoso and composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and the German composer Carl Maria von Weber.

A musical child, he sang in the boys ' choir at the Salzburg Cathedral where he is believed to have taken music lessons with Michael Haydn.

Boston's Handel and Haydn Society aimed at raising the level of church music in America, publishing their " Collection of Church Music ".

This was his own name for the symphony, which was written in the style that, according to Prokofiev, Joseph Haydn would have used if he had been alive at the time.

In summer 1790 Haydn attempted to produce the work with his own company at Eszterháza, but was prevented from doing so by the death of his patron, Nikolaus Esterházy.

* July 8 – Composer Joseph Haydn awarded an honorary doctorate of music at Oxford University.

The most important symphonists of the latter part of the 18th century are Joseph Haydn, who wrote at least 108 symphonies over the course of 36 years ( Webster and Feder 2001 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote at least 56 symphonies in 24 years ( Eisen and Sadie 2001 ).

Thus, Georg Reutter was the Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, where his young choristers included both Joseph and Michael Haydn.

* Michael Haydn ( 1737 – 1806 ) was Kapellmeister at Großwardein and, starting in 1762, at Salzburg.

That discussion hook has made the story a staple in English classes in American schools, especially since Stockton was careful never to hint at what he thought the ending would be ( according to Hiram Collins Haydn in The Thesaurus of Book Digests, ISBN 0-517-00122-5 ).

Among more than 300 original portraits are John Cawse's 1826 painting of Weber ( the last of the composer ), Haydn by Thomas Hardy ( 1791 ) and Bartolommeo Nazari's painting of Farinelli at the height of his fame.

Mozart, while J. Haydn is looking at the Pope.

Haydn composed this symphony during his tenure as assistant Kapellmeister at the court of Prince Nikolaus Eszterházy.

Like other symphonies composed around this time, the work was written for the small number of players ( less than twenty ) on retainer at the Esterházy court .< ref > HC Robbins Landon, < u > Haydn: Chronicle and Works </ u >, 5 vols, ( Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976 -) v. 2, < u > Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790 </ u >, 291-94 .</ ref > The scoring is unusual in its use of two cor anglais ( English horns ) in place of the more common oboe.

Late in life, Haydn asked for the slow movement of this symphony to be played at his funeral.

The work is in four movements and is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns ( in E and G ), continuo ( harpsichord ) and strings :< ref name =" hcrl-chronicle-v2 "> HC Robbins Landon, < u > Haydn: Chronicle and Works </ u >, 5 vols, ( Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976 -) v. 2, < u > Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790 </ u ></ ref >

By 1973 they had completed 33 concerts in Central and South America and the Caribbean, including a performance of Haydn Quartets at the Colon in Buenos Aires.

Currently the reinvigorated theatre has acquired a growing international reputation as a summer opera festival theatre by focusing on works by Haydn, Handel, Gluck and Mozart and emphasis on authentic performance.

* Haydn Morris, international rugby union wing three-quarter

* Haydn Price ( 1883 – 1964 ), Welsh international footballer