Haydn

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A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), an Austrian composer of the Classical period.

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“Two years ago I rashly accepted a commission from Tring Chamber Music and Paul Barritt, leader of the Hallé orchestra, to write⟳ poems to read⟳ between movements of Haydn's quartet Opus 51, which meditates on Christ's "Seven Last⟳ Words". Haydn, commissioned in 1785 by Cádiz cathedral, wrote this music to go between words so it's hard to perform⟳ and listen⟳ to without some.”

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