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Michael Haydn

1737 - 1806

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Johann Michael Haydn (German: [ˈhaɪdn̩] ; 14 September 1737 – 10 August 1806) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Haydn has received more than 371,724 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Michael Haydn is the 182nd most popular composer (down from 169th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Austria (down from 156th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Austrian Composer.

Michael Haydn was a composer of the Classical period. He is most famous for his symphonies, string quartets, and operas.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Michael Haydn ranks 182 out of 1,216Before him are Jan Dismas Zelenka, Hugo Wolf, Baldassare Galuppi, Johann Stamitz, Giuseppe Torelli, and Pauline Viardot. After him are John Field, Bohuslav Martinů, Komitas, Howard Shore, Siegfried Wagner, and Luciano Berio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Michael Haydn ranks 5Before him are Luigi Galvani, Johann Friedrich Struensee, Edward Gibbon, and Thomas Paine. After him are Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Josef Mysliveček, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, and Louise of France. Among people deceased in 1806, Michael Haydn ranks 10Before him are Charles-Henri Sanson, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, William V, Prince of Orange, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Carlo Gozzi. After him are Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, William Pitt the Younger, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, and Mungo Park.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Michael Haydn ranks 178 out of 1,237Before him are Eduard Strauss (1835), Rudolf I of Bohemia (1281), Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797), Erich von Stroheim (1885), Ernst Happel (1925), and Maria Amalia of Austria (1701). After him are Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817), Eric Kandel (1929), Josef Stefan (1835), Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (1558), Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943), and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656).

Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Michael Haydn ranks 17Before him are Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), Josef Strauss (1827), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), and Eduard Strauss (1835). After him are Ludwig Minkus (1826), Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739).