Johann Evangelist Haydn

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Johann Evangelist Haydn (born December 23, 1743 in Rohrau ; † May 10, 1805 in Eisenstadt ) was an Austrian singer ( tenor ) who became known primarily as the younger brother of the two composers Joseph Haydn and Johann Michael Haydn .

Life

Johann Evangelist Haydn was the eleventh child of the market judge and wheelwright Mathias Haydn. According to Albert Christoph , Haydn, like his brothers, was a choirboy in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . According to other sources, he was trained as a wheelwright by his father. According to Hughes, Haydn is said to have been unable to continue his father's business. After the death of his father in 1763, he received an allocation before the formal distribution of the inheritance, from which it can be concluded that Haydn was already in financial difficulties at that time.

In 1765 Haydn went to Eisenstadt , where his brother Joseph served as Kapellmeister for the Esterhazy family . He was hired as an unpaid tenor , and only from 1771 did he receive a small salary.

Haydn was probably not a particularly good singer. This is probably one of the reasons why his services were limited to church music instead of opera music , which Joseph conducted in the 1770s. It is possible that it was just a favor to Joseph that Johann got paid.

In 1775 Johann Evangelist briefly lost his job after a brief dispute with the court director Peter Ludwig von Rahier , but was hired again at the request of his brother. After five years of unemployment , Haydn was finally hired as a singer in 1795 and remained so until his death in 1805.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Christoph Dies: Biographical stories from Joseph Haydn . Vienna 1810.
  2. ↑ Rosemary Hughes: Haydn . London 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Haydn, Johann Evangelist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohrau
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1805
Place of death Eisenstadt