Joseph Haydn Accomplishments

After observing the variety of concerts available,I did some research on the pieces and the composers. The one that most caught my attention was Joseph Haydn. Haydn worked many jobs starting off, including as a music teacher and a street serenader His parents noticed that he was gifted in the field of music and knew that there was no future for serious musical training in Rohrau.However, life with the Franks was not simple, as Hadyn remembers being frequently hungry and embarrassed by his clothing and social class. He lived in poverty”. According to Haydn's childhood family was extremely musical frequently sang together and with their neighbors.He went through a lot of hardship to become a composer. I chose him because I like classical

The piece “HAYDN Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major ("Drum Roll")” in February 21, 2015 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater located in the precollege orchestrain New York. This piece seems very interesting. The piece include the following instruments in the orchestra such as 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. On September 28, 1790 Prince Nicolaus Esterházy died, after being Haydn’s employer for 28 years. Hadyn was not happy with the position; even though he was getting paid well, he did not feel satisfied, so after Esterhazy’s death he decided to fight for his real dreams. He decided to move on.This tragedy lead to Haydn successful career in music.The second series of concerts for the 1794-95 season that Haydn composed Symphony No. 103 in E-flat, the “Drum Roll. Haydn’s ability to balance mystery with earthiness by integrating the two on a higher formal level, and his masterful use of time-honored contrapuntal devices controlled by the dramatic harmonic tension of late-18th-century sonata form, ranks him beside Mozart as one of the superlative masters of musical art in that, or any,

103, “Drum Roll,” is derived from the timpani cadenza that opens the first movement. It leads into the slow introduction of a unison melody, stated in low strings and bassoon and eventually taken up by the violins. The majesty of the introduction gives way to folk-like rusticity in the Allegro. The introduction returns just before the end of the movement as if to dispel all gaiety, but only momentarily; the Allegro resumes and dances its way to the end of the movement.----------This symphony earns its nickname from the opening timpani solo in the first movement. The symphony contains four movements, each with different speeds and variations. The first movement started low and mysterious. By the end, it was both slow and melancholic with periods of