Youth With Musical Career
As a teenager, he played cello in the House of Eszterházy summer orchestra under the direction of Joseph Haydn. He was also an amateur pianist, and played the organ and violin and sung in a choir. Also his brother Eduard and one sister Barbara showed great musical talents, as their father Georg who worked as an organist and played the piano and violin, but they had to little resources for musical education else than within the family. After graduating the Catholic Gymnasium (high school) in Pressburg (Bratislava), Adam entered the Franciscan Order, but two years later, by his petition in 1797, was released from the order. Adam still kept close relationship to the order, which probably gave him the inspiration to name his son Franz.
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