User:Opus33/Joseph Haydn: reception history
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During his lifetime, Joseph Haydn was perhaps the most celebrated of composers; his music was widely played and he received honors and awards from throughout Europe. In the two centuries since his death in 1809, public and critical esteem for Haydn's music has varied, following a U-shaped curve: it dropped off considerably during the period from his death to the late 19th century, then rose again from about 1920 to the present.[1]