Esterházy

The Esterházy family were very wealthy Viennese nobility living in the vast palace of Esterháza, who employed Franz Joseph Haydn for most of the latter half of the 18th century. It was in his postion as court musician that Haydn wrote the great majority of his witty and entertaining music.

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