Introduction

Biography

Johann was the bro­ther of com­pos­er Franz Hay­dn.

He be­gan sing­ing as a cho­ris­ter at St. Ste­phen’s, Vi­en­na, around 1745. While there, he stu­died vio­lin, cla­vier, and coun­ter­point.

In 1757, he was ap­point­ed to the court of the Bi­shop of Gross­ward­ein (now north­ern Ro­ma­nia).

In 1763, he won an ap­point­ment as Kon­zert­meis­ter to Arch­bi­shop Schrat­ten­bach of Salz­burg. He al­so played the or­gan at the Drei­fal­tig­keits Church in Salz­burg, and taught vio­lin at the court.

The Roy­al Swed­ish Aca­de­my of Mu­sic in­duct­ed him in 1804.

His works in­clude ov­er 400 pieces of re­li­gious mu­sic, plus:

Works

• Ninfe in bel­li, 1765
• Die Schul­dig­keit des ers­ten Ge­bots; Der Kampf der Busse und Ge­kehr­ung, 1768
• Die Wahr­heit der Na­tur, 1769
• Oratorium de Pas­si­one Do­mi­ni nos­tri Je­su Christi, cir­ca 1775
• Der eng­lische Pa­tri­ot, circa 1779
• Die Ju­bel­fey­er, 1787
• Die Ähr­en­le­ser­in, 1788