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ta% 2 0- 0 1/42. 928g. 4e8 21. 201 1244 19 I. Remarks on the program of the II. Waldstein Serenade 31.5. and 1.6.1944. 1. Biographical. Joseph Haydn, as Nadler points out, comes from a Bavarian peasant family. He was born as the son of a Wagner in Rohrau a.d. Leitha in Burgenland in 1732. He first came to a relative in the teaching, became a singer's boy at the age of 8 in Vienna and later moved on as a layier player. l759 first he gets a position with Count Morzin as music director at Schloss Lukawetz near Pilsen. With regard to the area Bohemia and Moravia it can be noted as interesting detail that Haydn's Symphony No. 1 composed in this castle Lukawetz. This his youth work stands out by its maturity; it dominates by far his first string quartets. Haydn was then 28 years old. The marriage he enters makes him unhappy, because, as he himself says, it was indifferent to his wife, "whether her husband is a shoemaker or an artist", 176l he becomes second Kapellmeister with the prince Nikolaus Esterházy in Eisenstadt in Burgenland. 5 years later he leads the chapel. He lives from there on the lone sightless Esterhaz at Lake Neusiedl. In the winter of the year 1791-92 and 1794-95 Haydn conducts symphonic concerts in London, where he becomes Honorary Director of Oxford. During the time between the two Lordon journeys he spent in Vienna, Beethovent is his pupil. Through Handel's oratorios, which he got to know in London, he is inspired to his two oratory works "The Creation" and "The Seasons". These two works, which represent the summit of Haydn's work, were created - 2 - 10-89"/42