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Where did Joseph Haydn write his first string quartets?
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Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn, detail of a portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1791; in the collection of the Royal College of Music, London.
Joseph Haydn wrote his first string quartets while staying at the home of the music-loving Austrian nobleman Karl Joseph von FĂŒrnberg, where he played chamber music with the instrumentalists there.1