- It was the home of
Joseph Haydn and his
orchestra from 1766 to 1790.
Esterháza was not the
primary or
ancestral home of the Esterházy family; that was...
- that of the Emperor. The
family derived its name from the
settlement Esterháza,
Kingdom of Hungary. The
settlement no
longer exists, and is not to be...
- family's
ancestral seat
Schloss Esterházy in
Eisenstadt and
later on
Esterháza, a
grand new
palace built in
rural Hungary in the 1760s.
Haydn had a huge...
- Haydn, and was
written to be
performed in
Paris in 1787. He
wrote it in
Esterháza in 1786, but for an
orchestra much larger, at the
instigation of Count...
-
major (Hoboken I/88) was
written by
Joseph Haydn, for the
orchestra of
Esterháza under the
benevolent Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy. It is
notably the first...
-
Unlike his ancestors,
Nikolaus did not
spend his
youth in the
Schloss Esterháza in Hungary, but in England,
where his father, Paul III Anton,
Prince Esterházy...
- ever-increasing
amount of his time
isolated in the family's
palace at
Esterháza in
rural Hungary. As of 1779 he had been
allowed to
publish his own works...
-
Hoboken I/62, is a
symphony written by
Joseph Haydn for the
orchestra at
Esterháza in 1780 or 1781, a good
length of time
after the
writing of
Symphony No...
- new
palace at
Esterháza,
built starting in the 1760s at Fertőd in modern-day Hungary,
about 40 km. from Eisenstadt. Initially,
Esterháza was
visited only...
- 1784, and it went on to
receive 54
performances from 1784 to 1788 at the
Esterháza Court Theatre.
During the composer's
lifetime it was also
performed in...
