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An event of this kind must have done something for Haydn's
reputation, which was now rapidly extending. Porpora seems also
to have been of no small service to him in the way of introducing
him to aristocratic acquaintances. At any rate, in 1755, a
wealthy musical amateur, the Baron von Furnberg, who frequently
gave concerts at his country house at Weinzierl, near Vienna,
invited him to take the direction of these performances and
compose for their programmes. It was for this nobleman that he
wrote his first string quartet, the one in B flat.
This composition was rapidly followed by seventeen other works
of the same class, all written between 1755 and 1756.
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