Monday
31
March

Happy Birthday, Joseph Haydn

Papa Haydn turns 282 today

Happy Birthday, Joseph Haydn

To all you birthday girls and boys out there - you share your birthday with not one, but two great composers, J.S. Bach and J. Haydn. We fully expect all of you to start churning out music soon.

Bach has a piece in his honour in our Lent calendar, and Joseph Haydn has his celebration here, with the best ever passage about Pontius Pilate: