Happy Birthday, Franz Joseph Haydn

Hoppner, Franz Joseph Haydn, 1791

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts. I listened more than I studied, therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed. 

Franz Joseph Haydn, born on this day in 1732

Alfred Brendel performs the Piano Sonata No. 59 in E-Flat, Hob XVI 49 ...