When Joseph Haydn completed his fourth and final oratorio ... Swieten then presented to Hadyn a libretto on the theme of The Seasons he found in the old composer a worthy partner in his own ...

Joseph was the second of his 12 children ... From this period come the six late Masses, The Creation and The Seasons. In his mid-sixties, Haydn’s health began to fail and he resigned as Kapellmeister ...