Haydn and Mozart
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The composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn were friends. Their relationship is not very well documented, but the evidence that they enjoyed each other's company is strong. Six string quart
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Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
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Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr., was the youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younger of his parents' tw
Haydn and Mozart
…quotations or citings of personal conversations leads some scholars to doubt his claims. However, he welcomed Mozart's two surviving sons, Karl and Wolfgang Jr., into his home in the Lesser Quarter and became a foster father figure to them. Mozart's "Haydn" quartets (K. 387, 421, 428, 458, 464, and 465) were…
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1825)
The two surviving sons of Wolfgang Amadeus and Constanze Mozart: Franz Xaver Wolfgang (left) and Karl Thomas (right); painting by Hans Hansen, Vienna, 1800
Lithograph of the composer in his latter years, by Josef Kriehuber