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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Episode 5: A Wider World

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

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Episode 5: A Wider World

A Wider World

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), A Wider World

Donald Macleod discusses Haydn's receiving commissions from Naples, Paris and London.

All this week, Donald Macleod explores Haydn's time at the Hungarian palace of Eszterháza, the composer's primary base of operations for nearly a quarter of a century and the place where, he said, he 'was forced to become original'.

Today, as Haydn begins to outgrow Eszterháza, his international reputation starts to generate commissions: from Naples, where King Ferdinand's passion for a curious musical instrument resulted in a series of works for the lira organizzata (a sort of hurdy-gurdy on stilts); from Paris, where a request for six new symphonies for the exclusive (and masonically connected) series known as the Concert de Loge Olympique led to what we now know as the 'Paris' symphonies; and from London, ushering in the final and most glorious chapter in the composer's career.

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Donald Macleod explores Haydn's time at the Hungarian palace of Eszterhaza

Exploring Haydn's time at the Hungarian palace of Eszterhaza, the composer's primary base of operations for nearly a quarter of a century and where, he said, he 'was forced to become original'

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