Tag: chorister
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Haydn’s audition
Karl Georg Reutter II was appointed choirmaster at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna in 1738. The following year he went on tour to recruit choristers. In the town of Hainburg, Joseph Haydn (at stage seven years of age) auditioned. The contemporary biography Guiseppe Carpani recalled: Reutter gave him a tune to sing at sight. The…
