Franz Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria on March 31,
1732. His parents were Mathias and Maria Haydn. His compositional media is
orchestra, chamber music, keyboard, choral and opera. Joseph Haydn was the
brother of Michael Haydn who was a highly regarded composer and the brother of Johann
Evangelist Haydn, a tenor. He was also a friend of Mozart and a teacher of
Beethoven. Haydn married Maria Anna Keller, they had no children. The Classical
period occurred between the Baroque and the Romantic periods, and Joseph was
one of the known composers during the Classical period. Franz Joseph Haydn breathed
his last on May 31, 1809, in Vienna, Austria. He was 77 years old.
Allegro Giocoso means lively and humorous.