exhibition "Haydn´s last Years" in his former house on January 28, 2009 in Vienna.

Visitors are pictured during the opening of an exhibition "Haydn´s last Years" in his former house on January 28, 2009 in Vienna. Haydn invented and developed the form of the classical symphony as well as the string quartet. He composed 104 symphonies and over 99 quartets, as well as a host of other pieces including church music and operas. In a year commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Josef Haydn, Vienna's Konzerthaus offers a series of concerts starting February 13

Visitors watch a cannonball fired 1809 on Joseph Haydn´s house by French troops, during the opening of an exhibition "Haydn´s last Years" in his former house on January 28, 2009 in Vienna. Haydn died at the end of May in 1809 at 77, shortly after an attack on Vienna by the French army under Napoleon. He invented and developed the form of the classical symphony as well as the string quartet. He composed 104 symphonies and over 99 quartets, as well as a host of other pieces including church music and operas. In a year commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Josef Haydn, Vienna's Konzerthaus offers a series of concerts starting February 13.

A visitor looks at the death mask of Joseph Haydn during the opening of an exhibition "Haydn´s last Years" in his former house on January 28, 2009 in Vienna. Haydn invented and developed the form of the classical symphony as well as the string quartet. He composed 104 symphonies and over 99 quartets, as well as a host of other pieces including church music and operas. In a year commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Josef Haydn, Vienna's Konzerthaus offers a series of concerts starting February 13.

Visitors are pictured during the opening of an exhibition "Haydn´s last Years" in his former house on January 28, 2009 in Vienna. Haydn invented and developed the form of the classical symphony as well as the string quartet. He composed 104 symphonies and over 99 quartets, as well as a host of other pieces including church music and operas. In a year commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Josef Haydn, Vienna's Konzerthaus offers a series of concerts starting February 13.

A visitor is pictured during the opening of an exhibition "Haydn´s last Years" in his former house on January 28, 2009 in Vienna. Haydn invented and developed the form of the classical symphony as well as the string quartet. He composed 104 symphonies and over 99 quartets, as well as a host of other pieces including church music and operas. In a year commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Josef Haydn, Vienna's Konzerthaus offers a series of concerts starting February 13.