Definition of Haydn

1. Noun. Prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).

Exact synonyms: Franz Joseph Haydn, Joseph Haydn
Generic synonyms: Composer

2. Noun. The music of Haydn.
Generic synonyms: Music

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haydn

Hawkyns
Hawley appliance
Hawley retainer
Haworth
Haworth conformational formula
Haworth perspective formula
Hawsmith
Hawson
Hawthorne
Hawthorne effect
Hawthornean
Hawthornian
Haya
Hayastan
Hayden
Haydn
Hayek
Hayekian
Hayem's haematoblast
Hayem's solution
Hayem-Widal syndrome
Hayes
Hayflick's limit
Haygarth's nodes
Haygarth's nodosities
Hayhurst
Hayk
Haylee
Hayleigh
Hayley

Literary usage of Haydn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"haydn was influenced by these considerations till the last. ... haydn did a great deal of important and substantial work before Mozart came into prominence ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"Both carried out great reforms— Glück in the sphere of opera, haydn in symphonic and instrumental music. Both were adored in foreign countries—whilst Glück ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1818)
"The Lives of haydn and Mozart; with Observations on the Genius of ... ‘I have good authority for every thing that I may say to you respecting haydn. ..."

4. Musical history, biography, and criticism: Being a General Survey of Music by George Hogarth (1835)
"haydn. JOSEPH haydn was born on the 31st of March, 1732, at Rohrau, a village in Austria. His father was a poor wheelwright, to which occupation he united ..."

5. The Evolution of Modern Orchestration by Louis Adolphe Coerne (1908)
"But in both these branches of art haydn left his indelible stamp upon the ... The symphonies of haydn and Beethoven have been felicitously compared by ..."

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