Count Morzin

Count Morzin was an aristocrat of the Austrian Empire during the 18th century. He is remembered today as the first person to employ the composer Joseph Haydn as his Kapellmeister, or music director. (Lesser known is the Count Wenzel von Morzin, Czech Václav hrabě z Morzinu, who was Vivaldi's patron, and dedicatee of The Four Seasons.) The first few of Haydn's 114 symphonies were written for the Count.