Three years later he became national sales manager of the Haydn Society.

He was also a scholar, a musician and for many years, the president of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society.

He became conductor of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society in 1899 and held that post until his death.

He co-founded The Haydn Society in 1949, the goal of which was to publish and record Haydn's works.

Where there, he and a group of friends, including Geiringer, founded the Haydn Society.

He remained secretary of the Haydn Society, which operated from Vienna rather than Boston after his move.

I know quite a few who were members of the Haydn Society back home," Ida Mae said.

This was not completed because its sponsor, the Haydn Society, ran out of funds.

He started a quartet to record all the 83 Haydn quartets for the Haydn Society although they ran out of money before it was finished.

Boston's Handel and Haydn Society, for example, gave 55 performances of his oratorio David during the 1830s.