Franz Joseph Haydn was born on March 31st, 1732, in Rohrau, Austria near Hungary. His father, Mathias Haydn, was a wagoner and a sexton at his parish and his mother, Elizabeth, was a simple and humble woman. During the evening Mathias would play the harp, and Elizabeth would sing to their children. One day, his father noticed him scraping two sticks of wood against each other simulating a imitating a violin. His father was determined to …showed first 75 words of 883 total…

…showed last 75 words of 883 total…cantata he had composed for his father’s close friend. In March of 1808, Haydn heard a performance of his work for the last time, The Creation, directed by Salieri. From then on he was confined and suffered from weakness and ill-health. Joseph Haydn died on May 31 1809. In his will, he forgot no one; old friends, acquaintances, and people who had done him favors as he was young and in the latter years of his life.