![]() ![]() ![]() You can see here his modest kitchen too and Haydn would walk to work to the entrance of the palace everyday. Haydn's house, which he owned in the 1770's was about a block away. And heres how it looks today, hasn't changed that much. ![]() And here's how the palace, the Esterházy Palace looked in the 18th century. And here is the town, city about 35,000 people today of Eisenstadt. So we got Vienna, we're going south-southeast of Vienna. Let's turn to a user friendly Googlemap here. But the principle residence of the Esterhazy was here in the town of Eisenstadt South of Vienna. Where they stayed during most of the winter. So here's a slide of the Esterhazy Palace. Director of Music at the court of the family of the Esterhazy who were arguably the most wealthy and most powerful of all the nobles in Austria, save the Austrian royal family, the Emperor's family itself. Director of Music as we have seen before. Eventually in 1761, almost 30 he got a job as the Kapellmeister. ![]() And he took music lessons as well to further learn his craft. Violinist, keyboardist, organist at various churches. He earned a living as a freelance musician. Here's a modern view of that imposing church, where Haydn stayed until his voice broke in his late teens, stayed there about ten years and thereafter. And he brought him back to Vienna to be a choir boy in the cathedral school and church. Scouting for voices and he heard young Haydn sing. When he was about six, the choir master of the cathedral of Saint Stephen in Vienna was going around the country recruiting. And here's the house in Rohrau where he was born. South, South Eastern Austria, at the tip of the arrow that you see on the screen. The Hayden family came from here is Rora. His father was a wheel maker in a farm town south of Vienna with very little formal education or musical training. Indeed his was something of a rags to riches story. The heart of classical with a capital C, the heart of classical music. Hayden along with Mozart and Beethoven and a very young Shubert, were the main figures as we hit scene in the Viennese classical school. And even today is referred to just as Joseph Hayden. His physical appearance may very well have served as the prototype for the stereotypical, “struggling bard,” or “tortured genius.” We’ll study some of his most famous sonatas, including his Moonlight Sonata and then go beyond his music to explore his personal life, including his struggle with deafness and depression. Perhaps the high (or low) point arrives when your instructor is ruthlessness murdered on stage by the feckless Don Giovanni.We’ll then shift over to Beethoven– a passionate, conflicted, and oft-times disheveled genius. We’ll delve into the unique features of the music that make it the gold standard for all music for centuries to come. We’ll explore his music through the lens of three artistic masterpieces: a piano concerto, an opera, and the Requiem mass. As we proceed, we'll also see where and how they lived, compare how they wrote and performed their music, and even look at some of the exact instruments they performed on all those years ago.We’ll spend latter part of the module highlighting two figures that stand at the very heart of Western music.The first is Mozart, a well-dressed, confident, eccentric, and ever brilliant innovator. Not long after, music was seen as something to be elevated and studied, in other words it became, “High Art.” This week, we’ll start by listening to music by Haydn and Mozart, getting our grounding, so to speak, in musical form. This was the same time we started to see large concert halls created specifically for the purpose of listening to concerts. It wasn’t until around 1800 that people began to appreciate musical compositions, as they do today. Would you believe that once upon a time, musical compositions were viewed as disposable, one-time-use entertainment? Could you imagine an orchestra attempting to perform a beautiful piece over the sounds of noisy patrons in a casino? How about a violin being drowned out by a dog loudly barking outside of a café? Well, this was the reality before the turn of the 18th century. ![]()
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