Haydn, Franz Joseph
(1732–1809)> COMPOSER
Haydn, Franz Joseph (31 March 1732, Rohrau, Austria; 31 May 1809, Vienna), composer, served prince Nicholas Esterhazy as Court musician in Eisenstadt for 28 years, and, after his patron’s death on 28 September 1790, he made two trips to London, but he was never tempted to travel to France until very late in life, when Ignatz Pleyel was dispatched to Vienna to persuade the composer to conduct his recently finished but already famous La Création du monde at the Opéra. Pleyel was selected to go on…