musicians

Michael Johann Haydn ( 1737 - 1806 ) , the brother of famous
Joseph Haydn , a very well known composer himself as well , he was just one of the fine
musicians employed at the court of Oradea`s Bishopric Palace , him being hired as a
,,Kapellmeister,, from 1760 to April 1762 when he moved to Salzburg for the rest of his life .
At one point in his career ,when the Imperial couple heard his ,, Salve Regina ,, they rewarded him as much as twenty-four ducats for she has never heard it sung like that before ...

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739 - 1799) hired by bishop
Baron Patachich at Oradea in the Palace as Kapellmeister from the 1765 untill 1769 , when her Majesty , the Empress Maria Theresa rebuked his benefactor , for a lack of strictness... Still , year 1770 , in return for his services to the bishop of Oradea, he was made Knight of the Golden Spur like Mozart and Gluck were. At Oradea he composed symphonies , violin concertos , string quartetos and his first oratorio , an adaptation by the bishop himself of Metastasio Isacco ,, Figura del Rodentore ,. Also here , so happy and joyfull , he even started a small thatre and wrote his first comic opera ,, Amore in musica ,, ...

The MUSICIANS of the Palace ...