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 ...

Between 1757 and 1799, Franz Joseph Haydn completed 67 string quartets. Every one, even the lightweight early divertimentos, has something in it to enjoy. Many of the last quartets are masterpieces.

Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...

Explore the work of famed composer Joseph Haydn’s career with host Scott Yoo and guests. Explore the work of famed composer Joseph Haydn’s career with host Scott Yoo and featured guest artists as he ...

This is the problem: He did not die tragically young, but lived to a ripe old age. He did not leave a trove of letters scattered with four-letter words. And they haven’t made a famous film about him.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. Haydn spent much of his career in service to nobility, situated far away from the musical mainstream. He once said ...

When I studied composition with the late Leonard Stein, one of my regular assignments was to compose minuets for string quartet “in the style of Mozart and Haydn.” It was no accident that Stein ...

To most concertgoers a generation ago, Joseph Haydn was the composer of only twelve symphonies (inexplicably numbered 93-104), a few string quartets and the Austrian national anthem. According to the ...

Making her H&H debut, conductor Laurence Equilbey cannily paired Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” with Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 ‘She’s a French composer from the 19th century, around the time ...

Is This What We Want? is an unusual album. There's no music. No words. Instead, it's basically ... silent. That's because the 12 tracks were recorded in a bunch of empty performance spaces and studios ...

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 ...