Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...

The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...

Haydn is known as ‘the father of the string quartet’ because he was the first to compose four-part music for two violins, a viola and a cello on a regular basis. Beethoven was so overawed by Haydn’s ...

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...

The first of Haydn's Esterhazy symphonies, in Le Matin nothing is taken for granted, and its musical structure is full of startling moments How else should the most productive period of symphonic ...

The sound of music was never far away in the Haydn household… St Martin’s Voices and St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble perform ...

Dolly Parton’s office revenge comedy makes a fast, funny, gratifying summer night in Chatham, New York. The production runs ...

Just days after composer Joseph Haydn died in 1809, grave robbers broke into the cemetery and opened his coffin. Unlike other cemetery thieves, they weren’t interested in removing jewelry or other ...

A HAYDN pilgrimage, if it is not to be time wasted, should be undertaken in a spirit very nearly Chaucerian. The goal may be sensed as holy, but the going must be fun. This fits the nature of the man ...

Nicholas Kenyon is our guide to recordings of Haydn's inventive 'Trauer' Symphony. Duration: 42:41 Haydn: Symphony No. 60 'Il Distratto' Charles Hazlewood explores Haydn's Symphony No.60 in C 'Il ...