{"id":48116,"date":"2024-10-10T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T10:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5b68f2f2-5ff5-477f-a93f-cd5fc03ef417"},"modified":"2024-10-10T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T12:07:16","slug":"haydn-marriage-why-the-composers-union-with-maria-anna-keller-was-doomed-from-the-start","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/haydn-marriage-why-the-composers-union-with-maria-anna-keller-was-doomed-from-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Haydn marriage: why the composer’s union with Maria Anna Keller was doomed from the start"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Thursday, 10 October 2024 at 10:49 AM<\/p>

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Wednesday 26 November 1760 should have been a happy day for Joseph Haydn<\/a>. <\/strong>And perhaps it was. Aged 28, he already had a good job working as music master for an aristocrat, and had recently written the first of his 104 symphonies<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>

Romantically, he had seemingly hit the jackpot too \u2013 that November day he married Maria Anna Keller in St Stephen\u2019s Cathedral, Vienna, where two decades previously he had been a chorister. Years of happiness, both personal and professional, seemed to stretch out before the young composer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>