HAYDN, JOSEPH

born March 31, 1732, Rohrau, Austria died May 31, 1809, Vienna in full Franz Joseph Haydn Austrian composer who was one of the most important figures in the development of the Classical style in music during the 18th century. He helped establish the forms for the string quartet and the symphony. Karl Geiringer H.C. Robbins Landon The Editors of the Encyclopdia Britannica Additional reading Works on his life and career include H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: A Documentary Study (1981), a well-illustrated introduction to the man, and Haydn: Chronicle and Works, 5 vol. (197680), a standard study; H.C. Robbins Landon and David Wyn Jones, Haydn: His Life and Music (1988), the best single-volume biography; Karl Geiringer and Irene Geiringer, Haydn: A Creative Life in Music, 3rd rev. and enlarged ed. (1982); Rosemary Hughes, Haydn, rev. ed. (1962, reissued 1989), a compact work; and Jens Peter Larsen and Georg Feder, The New Grove Haydn (1982), useful especially for its extensive list of the composer's works.