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Handbook of Musical Biography: Short Notices of the Various Schools of …, 1886
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1the German and Italian schools. Piccini, being of a very amiable character, was not well pleased at finding himself suddenly a rival of Glück, whose works he greatly admired. He composed about three hundred operas; his masterpiece is his Dido. He died at Passy at the age of seventy-two.
3FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN.
5The founder of modern instrumental music, and the father of symphony, Franz Joseph Haydn, was born in the village of Rohrau, on the borders of Hungary and Austria, in 1732. The father, whose occupation was that of wheelwright and village clerk, was of a musical turn of mind, and was fond of playing on the harp, his wife singing to his accompaniment, and their little son, five years old, pretending to join in the concert with a sham violin made of a piece of wood. A distant relative, visiting them one day, fancied that he detected the germs of great talent in the child, and persuaded the parents to allow him to take charge of him. The boy proceeded, in consequence, with his relative to Hamburg, and there he received his musical education. Being thrown upon his own resources at a very early age, Haydn experienced many privations and difficulties, and it was only by his perseverance and industry that he gained sufficient money to enable him to study under the best masters. Haydn was a pupil of Porpora. He may truly be styled the inventor of the symphony, his worthy disciple and follower in this line of composition being Beethoven, though the Titanic mind of that great genius could hardly stoop
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