Original: Joseph Haydn ( 1732 -- 1809 ) had two Kapellmeister positions : first , from ( probably ) 1757 to 1761 for Count Morzin , then from 1761 on for the Eszterházy family , a high-ranking noble family of the Austrian Empire .
Simplified: Joseph Haydn worked for many years as Kapellmeister for the Eszterházy family , a very important noble family of the Austrian Empire .