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Short Name: | Michael Haydn |
Full Name: | Haydn, Michael, 1737-1806 |
Birth Year: | 1737 |
Death Year: | 1806 |
Johann Michael Haydn Austria 1737-1806. Born at Rohrau, Austria, the son of a wheelwright and town mayor (a very religious man who also played the harp and was a great influence on his sons' religious thinking), and the younger brother of Franz Joseph Haydn, he became a choirboy in his youth at the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna, as did his brother, Joseph, an exceptional singer. For that reason boys both were taken into the church choir. Michael was a brighter student than Joseph, but was expelled from music school when his voice broke at age 17. The brothers remained close all their lives, and Joseph regarded Michael's religious works superior to his own. Michael played harpsichord, violin, and organ, earning a precarious living as a freelance musician in his early years. In 1757 he became kapellmeister to Archbishop, Sigismund of Grosswardein, in Hungary, and in 1762 concertmaster to Archbishop, Hieronymous of Salzburg, where he remained the rest of his life (over 40 years), also assuming the duties of organist at the Church of St. Peter in Salzburg, presided over by the Benedictines. He also taught violin at the court. He married the court singer, Maria Magdalena Lipp in 1768, daughter of the cathedral choir-master, who was a very pious women, and had such an affect on her husband, trending his inertia and slothfulness into wonderful activity. They had one daughter, Aloysia Josepha, in 1770, but she died within a year. He succeeded Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an intimate friend, as cathedral organist in 1781. He also taught music to Carl Maria von Weber. His musical reputation was not recognized fully until after World War II. He was a prolific composer of music, considered better than his well-known brother at composing religious works. He produced some 43 symphonies,12 concertos, 21 serenades, 6 quintets, 19 quartets, 10 trio sonatas, 4 due sonatas, 2 solo sonatas, 19 keyboard compositions, 3 ballets, 15 collections of minuets (English and German dances), 15 marches and miscellaneous secular music. He is best known for his religious works (well over 400 pieces), which include 47 antiphons, 5 cantatas, 65 canticles, 130 graduals, 16 hymns, 47 masses, 7 motets, 65 offertories, 7 oratorios, 19 Psalms settings, 2 requiems, and 42 other compositions. He also composed 253 secular vocals of various types. He did not like seeing his works in print, and kept most in manuscript form. He never compiled or cataloged his works, but others did it later, after his death. Lothar Perger catalogued his orchestral works in 1807 and Nikolaus Lang did a biographical sketch in 1808. In 1815 Anton Maria Klafsky cataloged his sacred music. More complete cataloging has been done in the 1980s and 1990s by Charles H Sherman and T Donley Thomas. Several of Michael Haydn's works influenced Mozart. Haydn died at Salzburg, Austria.
John Perry
Tunes by Michael Haydn (23)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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ST. ALBAN (Haydn) | J. M. Haydn (Composer) | 2 | 33221 55566 24433 |
BEFIEHL DU DEINE WEGE (Haydn) | Johann Michael Haydn, d. 1806 (Composer) | 21 | 55354 32132 65643 |
STILLE NACHT | Michael Haydn (Composer) | 39 | 56535 65322 77115 |
DIE SACH IST DEIN | Michael Haydn (Composer) | 21 | 51113 32243 42171 |
[Fader, du som från din himmel] | M. Haydn (Composer) | 2 | 13456 71766 55243 |
[Fortgekämpft und fortgerungen] | Mich. Haydn (Composer) | 5 | 34535 54243 45345 |
GREENLAND (Haydn) | Johann Michael Haydn (From) | 117 | 35555 13322 44323 |
HOLY COMMUNION | J. Michael Haydn, 1737-1806 (Composer) | 4 | 13467 17665 52435 |
DULCE CARMEN | Michael Haydn (Composer) | 77 | 12345 43211 14321 |
LYONS | Johann Michael Haydn (From) | 333 | 51123 14432 51123 |
NEWBURY (Haydn) | M. Haydn (Composer) | 5 | 15555 13224 44323 |
OFFERTORIUM | J. Michael Haydn, 1737-1806 (Composer) | 18 | 34511 76715 53234 |
PILGRIM LINE | Johann Michael Haydn, 1737-1808 (Composer (attributed to)) | 2 | 11132 12234 56452 |
PROSPECT (Haydn) | Michael Haydn (Composer) | 3 | 13355 11224 43233 |
DAYSTAR (Haydn) | Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1803) (Composer) | 1 | 15332 11712 15332 |
RESURRECTION (Haydn) | Michael Haydn (Composer) | 1 | 51111 12344 44423 |
SALISBURY (Haydn) | Michael Haydn (Composer) | 2 | 11533 21171 2 |
ENDSLEIGH | Johann Michael Haydn (Arranged from) | 6 | 32112 23117 62171 |
SALZBURG (Haydn) | Johann Michael Haydn (Adapted from) | 79 | 13554 33211 17154 |
ST. AVOLD | Michael Haydn (Composer) | 5 | 11332 21112 34632 |
ST. MICHAELS (German) | Johann M. Haydn (Composer) | 1 | 55435 43243 16217 |
[Und es ward Finsterniss] | Joh. Mich. Haydn (1737-1806) (Composer) | 2 | 11133 44555 66722 |
BRADFORD (Haydn) | Johann M. Haydn, 1737-1806 (Composer) | 5 | 51721 32112 34217 |