They had no children. Many unproven anecdotes abound including stories that Maria Anna using Haydn’s manuscripts to line pastry tins or to curl her hair while Haydn apparently didn’t bother to ...

With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass ...

the original manuscript was lost and it was widely assumed that a famous composer wrote the melody for Silent Night – in the past it has been credited to Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart. Then in ...