Brother of com­pos­er Franz Hay­dn, Johann be­gan sing­ing as a chor­ist­er at St. Ste­phen’s, Vi­en­na, around 1745. While there, he stu­died vi­o­lin, cla­vier, and coun­ter­point. In 1757, he was ap­point­ed to the court of the Bishop of Gross­ward­ein (now north­ern Ro­mania). In 1763, he won an ap­point­ment as Konzertmeister to Arch­bi­shop Schrat­ten­bach of Salz­burg. He al­so played the or­gan at the Drei­fal­tig­keits Church in Salz­burg, and taught vi­o­lin at the court. The Roy­al Swed­ish Acad­e­my of Mu­sic in­duct­ed him in 1804. Haydn’s works in­clude over 400 piec­es of re­li­gious mu­sic, plus:

• Ninfe in belli, 1765
• Die Schul­dig­keit des erst­en Ge­bots; Der Kampf der Busse und Ge­kehr­ung, 1768
• Die Wahr­heit der Na­tur, 1769
• Oratorium de Pas­si­one Do­mi­ni nos­tri Je­su Christi, cir­ca 1775
• Der englische Pa­tri­ot, cir­ca 1779
• Die Ju­belf­eyer, 1787
• Die Ähr­en­le­ser­in, 1788

Sources

Music

1. Befiehl
2. Greenland
3. Ho­ly Communion
4. Lyons
5. Offertorium
6. Salzburg
7. Venice
8. Worship