Thomas Tapper

“ After a while it was agreed that the little boy should go to Hainburg (the place you found on the map) , and there become a pupil of the schoolmaster.
They worked hard at the school in those days. Once, when Haydn was an old man, he said: "I shall be grateful to that man (the schoolmaster) as long as I live, for keeping me so hard at work. But I used to get more floggings than food."
When he was six years old, Sepperl could "stand up like a man" and sing masses in the church choir, besides playing a little on the piano and the violin. ”

“ But Joseph Haydn was to do other things.
One day a man from Vienna visited the pastor of the Hainburg Church. He heard the little boy sing and liked his voice so much that he invited him to become a chorister in the huge Church of St. Stephen. [Pg 7] He was eight years old when he arrived in the great city of Vienna, still a little farther away from home than he was at Hainburg.
There was much else to do in the great church beside singing in the choir. There were music studies, of course, in singing, violin and piano playing. But there were also school studies to be learned every day. ”

“ Little Joseph Haydn's father and mother were poor, but they loved cleanliness and system.
They feared God, worked hard, and loved music. Joseph's father used to sing in a clear tenor voice, accompanying himself on the harp. At home little Joseph was called Sepperl. ”