Franz Joseph Haydn – composer

Joseph Haydn was a composer and teacher to Wolfgang Mozart.  He was born March 31, 1732 and died May 31, 1809.  He is considered the “Father of the String Quartet” and was instrumental to the piano trio, considered to be the genesis of the sonata form.  His brothers were Michael Haydn, also an accomplished composer & Johann Evangelist Haydn, a virtuoso tenor.  He taught both Wolfgang Amadeus…