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Updated: June 18, 2025
You shall have red heels; but they shall be high, that your stature may correspond with your merit." So he went to live at Eisenstadt in the Esterhazy household, and received a salary of four hundred florins, which was afterward raised to one thousand by Prince Nicholas Esterhazy.
In the event his little fling turned out to be, so far as externals went, quite the most exhilarating part of his life; until now all might seem to have been mere prelude and preparation. At Eisenstadt, Esterház and Vienna he had received compliments and presents, and had been regarded as more or less of a great little man.
In 1820 Prince Esterhazy had the remains reinterred in the upper parish church at Eisenstadt, where a simple stone with Latin inscription is placed in the wall above the vault to mark the spot. The early December dusk was closing in over the quaint old city of Salzburg. Up on the heights above the town the battlements of the great castle caught a reflection of the last gleams of light in the sky.
The wind instruments had one principal function, and that was to fill in the music, enrich it, and make it louder, and another minor one occasionally to put in solos. Haydn went to Eisenstadt, in Hungary, in 1761 to take up the duties of his new post that of second Kapellmeister to Prince Anton of Esterhazy.
Count Morzin, where he had conducted the orchestra, was obliged to reduce his establishment and dismissed his band and its director. As soon as this was known, the reigning Prince of Hungary, Paul Anton Esterházy offered Haydn the post of assistant Capellmeister at his country seat of Eisenstadt. The head Capellmeister, Werner, was old, but the Prince kept him on account of his long service.
It would appear that the first Hebrew book, Toledot Ya'akob, printed for a Jew in England, was, as the name of the author, Eisenstadt, suggests, that of a Slavonic Jew. He finally became professor of Hebrew in University College, London. Among his works is a highly praised bas-relief of Frederick II, which was much admired by the professors of the Academy.
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