Michael Haydn
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Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.
Crypt 54 (St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg): communal vault in which Maria Anna Mozart and Michael Haydn are buried
St. Peter's Church in Salzburg and the entrance to the Michael Haydn Library
Image: Portrait of Michael Haydn by Franz Xaver Hornöck
Classical period (music)
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The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.
A young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a representative composer of the Classical period, seated at a keyboard.
A modern string quartet. In the 2000s, string quartets from the Classical era are the core of the chamber music literature. From left to right: violin 1, violin 2, cello, viola
Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1792