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Joseph Haydn

Austrian composer (1732–1809)

9 dated entries naming Joseph Haydn, drawn from 7 separate years between 1732 CE and 1809 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1732March 31 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)source
  • 1763Joseph Haydn writes his Symphony No. 12 and Symphony No. 13 (August–December) for Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy; also, at about this date, his Symphony No. 40.source
  • 1791January 1 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England, to perform a series of concerts.source
  • 1791July 8 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, on his visit to England, is awarded an honorary doctorate of music at the University of Oxford.source
  • 1792The composer Ludwig van Beethoven moves to Vienna from Bonn to study with Haydn. He would live in Vienna for the rest of his life.source
  • 1797February 12 – "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" is first performed, with the music composed in January by Joseph Haydn, and it also becomes the tune of the Deutschlandlied, the German national anthem (Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, later Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit).source
  • 1799March 14 – The public premiere of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation takes place at the Burgtheater in Vienna.source

19th century

  • 1809May 31 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian classical composer (b. 1732)source
  • 1809May 31 – The famous composer Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna at age 77 following Napoleon's second siege of Viennasource

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