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Esterhazy

Town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada; population (1991) 2,900. It islocated 185 km/115 mi east of Regina and 71 km/44 mi southeast of Yorkton, in the Qu'Appelle River valley. Named for Count Paul Esterhazy, who founded a community of Hungarians to the south in 1886, it developed as the centre for a mixed farming region. In the 1950s one of the largest potash mines in North America opened here. Dairying and grain storage and processing are also important industries.
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The Esterhazy family, which employed Haydn for most of his career, spent the winter at their ancestral seat in the Austrian town of Eisenstadt, upping sticks in the summer to the palace of Esterhaza in rural Hungary.
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The Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy has won the Manes-Sperber literary prize.
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Or the trios Haydn wrote for his patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy, for viola, cello, and the cello-like but more complex instrument known as a baryton?
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