Eisenstadt, the city of Haydn

For the lovers of the music, Eisenstadt is one of the cities that is worth knowing, since in her Haydn lived approximately two hundred years ago, one of the biggest composers of the history of the music.

How to come

Eisenstadt is a city that is in Austria. To come up to her it is possible to take a flight from Spain (at present there are direct flights) that they come up to the airport of Vienna. From there, it is possible to rent a car up to Eisenstadt, which is to approximately 65 kilometers.

What to see

In the city, there can be covered some of the most interesting places related to the life of this composer. Haydn was born in Rohau, to 45 kilometers of the city, but it is Eisenstadt the one that is considered to be his city.

The composer, which is met like the “father of the symphony”, was 30 years living in the city, in which it was in musical teacher of one of the richest and powerful families, the family Esterházy. In the street of Hauptstrasse of puede to see the landscaped palace that they were possessing, and that helps us to do to us an idea of the power and the influence that they had in the city.

For any of her we can enjoy baroque mansions and coffees, which he is worth visiting. Inside the Palace Esterházy, which was constructed in 1672, he emphasizes the room Haydn, a theater of excellent acoustics with really impressive baroque fresh air. Here it was where the brilliant composer presented many of his works.

The Cathedral of St Martin is different of the stops that it is worth doing, not only because it was the place in which Haydn realized his most solemn interpretations, but also because it is a building of a big historical value.

In Haydngasse we can visit the house in which the composer lived for twelve years, and in that oy there can be contemplated scores and some of his personal objects. And other of the points that we must not leave to ourselves is the hill Bergkirche, in which a church meets the Haydn mausoleum.

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