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 ...

Debates about "best" composers are silly, but in this year of Haydn, his admirers are seizing the opportunity to right a few wrongs when it comes to their favorite composer. And wronged they feel.

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 ...

Humorous, earnest, prolific and always deeply humane, the Austrian composer is credited with inventing the symphony and the string quartet. Even if that’s not strictly true, his creativity shaped ...

WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

Complete Information About Haydn's Trauer Symphony, Kayhan Kalhor's Blue as the Turquoise Night of Neyshabur, and Mozart's Linz Symphony in Los Angeles at Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (Apr 23 – Apr ...