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.

May 13, 2018 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Add to Calendar 13-05-2018 14:00 13-05-2018 15:30 America/Toronto Vaughan String Quartet Concert J. Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No.2 “Fifths” J. Lai: String Quartet No ...

Inside Chamber Music is a new music education series that Asia Society Hong Kong Center is co-presenting with Premiere Performances. Each Inside Chamber Music evening combines a streamed lecture from ...

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...

A 1789 playbill for a “professional concert” at Hanover Square in London announced a new set of quartets by Joseph Haydn. The composer’s latest quartets, Op.54 and Op.55, three works apiece, were ...

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 ...