Haydn

From 01 Apr 2010 to 16 Jun 2010

Until 17 June 2010. On the 200th anniversary of Franz Joseph Haydn's death (1732 - 1809), BOZAR celebrates the Austrian's enormous contribution to classical music. With a catalogue numbering 1,874 pages, Haydn was a hard-working and compulsive composer, albeit a modest one.

Unlike the other heavyweights of the era, Bach and Mozart, Haydn was not born into the world of music; he grew up on a farm and later spent 30 years honing his craft as a court musician for the aristocratic Eszterh