Composers and performers

Emanuel Schikaneder

Jovan Stosic November 23, 2018

Emanuel Schikaneder (1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812), born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s opera The Magic Flute and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Branscombe called him “one of the most talented theatre men of his era”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Schikaneder

Joseph Haydn

Jovan Stosic November 11, 2018

Portrait of Joseph Haydn by Thomas Hardy (1791)[1]

(Franz) Joseph Haydn[a] (/ˈhaɪdən/; German: [ˈfʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdn̩] (About this sound listen); 31 March[b] 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio.[2] His contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet“.[3]

Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, “forced to become original”.[c] Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.

He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a tutor of Beethoven, and the older brother of composer Michael Haydn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn