The Seasons (Haydn) The Seasons (Haydn) The Seasons (German: "Die Jahreszeiten"), Hob. XXI:3), is an oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801. Haydn was led to write "The Seasons" by the great success of his previous oratorio "The Creation" (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe. The libretto for "The Seasons" was prepared for Haydn, just as with "The Creation", by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an Austrian nobleman who had also exercised an important influence on the career of Mozart (among other things commissioning Mozart's reorchestration of Handel's "Messiah"). Van Swieten's libretto
Changing of the Seasons (song) "NME", "It was a really weird experience to play it at last, as we wrote it over a year ago," while noting that, "We’ve been practising it really hard and thought, ‘Where better to play it live for the first time?". Changing of the Seasons (song) "Changing of the Seasons" is a song by Irish indie rock band Two Door Cinema Club. The song is the lead single and title track from the band's 2013 extended play (EP) of the same name, "Changing of the Seasons". "Changing of the Seasons" was the band's first new single since they departed their