Famous People with Name Haydn

Haydn Rigby            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Haydn Rigby: is a retired backstroke swimmer from the United Kingdom, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1956. Born in Southport, Merseyside, England, started Wigan Wasps Swimming Team and coached at the Wigan Internatio

Haydn Thomas            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Haydn Thomas: is a rugby union player for Exeter Chiefs in the RFU Premiership. He has previously played for Bristol and Gloucester. Haydn Thomas' position of choice is as a scrum-half.

Haydn Proctor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Haydn Proctor: was an American politician and judge who served as President of the New Jersey Senate and Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.He was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1938 and was reelected in 1941 and 1944. He was majority leader of the S

Franz Joseph Haydn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Franz Joseph Haydn: was one of the most prominent composers of the classical period, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".

Johann Michael Haydn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Michael Haydn: was an Austrian composer, the younger brother of (Franz) Joseph Haydn.Michael's early professional career path was paved by his older brother Joseph, whose skillful singing had landed him a position as a boy soprano in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna where he worked as a chorister, under the direction of Carl Georg Reutter. The early 19th century author Albert Christoph Dies, reporting from Joseph's late-life reminiscences, says the following:[1]

Johann Evangelist Haydn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Evangelist Haydn: was a tenor singer of the classical era; the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn. He was often called "Hansl", a diminutive form of "Johann".Johann was the eleventh child of Mathias Haydn and Anna Maria Koller Haydn (Joseph was second, and Michael sixth). His career training may have been mixed. According to Albert Christoph Dies, an early biographer of Joseph Haydn, Johann followed his older brothers in serving as a choirboy in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

(Franz) Joseph Haydn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

(Franz) Joseph Haydn: was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most important, prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these genres. He was also instrumental in the development of the sonata form, the piano trio and the post-Baroque concerto.[3][4].A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian aristocratic Esterházy family on their remote estate. Isolated from other composers and trends in music until the later part of his long life, he was, as he put it, "forced to become original".[5] At the time of his death, he was one of the most celebrated and frequently-performed composers across Europe.[6]