Composer Joseph Haydn, popularly known as the father of the symphony and the string quartet, excelled in every musical genre, a combination of artistry and diversity that made him famous across Europe ...

I had the pleasure and privilege of conducting Haydn's Symphony No 80 in D minor in Salzburg recently. It's an astonishing work, full of surprises, and almost completely unknown. The first movement is ...

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 ...

This paper is concerned with the musical instruments of Joseph Haydn's time—his early experiences with the instruments and his use of them. Sections are devoted to keyboards, instrumentation of the ...

As the Kapellmeister of the noble family of Esterhazy, Haydn enjoyed a position of power and responsibility. Besides his compositional duties as court composer, he was in charge of the family’s ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...

Premieres Friday, September 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/nowhearthis and the PBS Video app When Joseph Haydn visited England, he was so taken ...

Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago, on May 31, 1809, at 12:40 in the morning. He was 77, an old man for the time, but no one who knew him would have called Haydn aged. Energy and resilience marked his ...

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Haydn was among the most prolific of all great composers and he wrote in every form: 104 symphonies, nearly 90 string quartets, 62 piano sonatas, dozens of concertos, oratorios, masses and choral ...