A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian Esterházy family on their remote estate. Isolated from other composers and trends in music until the later part of his long life, he was, as he put it, "forced to become original".

His late liberty to compose just for one's own's business and the conflict of beeing somebody's servant - not only artists are touched by this questions of a composer's life.