Joseph Haydn's Ethnicity
The ethnicity of the composer Joseph Haydn was a controversial matter in Haydn scholarship during a period lasting from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. The principal contending ethnicities were Croatian and German. Mainstream musical scholarship in the English language today adopts the second of these two hypotheses. Due to the vagueness of the concept, German written scholarship does not use the term ethnicity in this context any more, but takes it for granted that Haydn's mother tongue was German.
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“To the extent to which genius can be conjoined with a merely good human being, Haydn possessed genius. He never exceeds the limits that morality sets for the intellect; he only composes music which has “no past.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)