"Joseph haydn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not forget that you promised to go to the concert to-night?" asked Nugent. "Your highness is aware that our friends not only intend to-night to give an ovation to the veteran master of German art, Joseph Haydn, but wish also to profit by the German music to make a political demonstration; and they long for the presence of the imperial court, that the emperor and his brothers may witness ...
— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach
... Franz Joseph Haydn was born near Vienna, in 1732, of humble parents, his mother a cook in a count's family, and his father a wheelwright and sexton of the parish church. When a young boy Haydn had a fine voice, on ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell
... Joseph Haydn, the subject of our story and the centre of his father's hopes, was born on March 31, 1732, and had attained his sixth year when the first step towards the settlement of his future was taken by his parents. ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham |
