Michael Haydn] In 1762, he was appointed concertmaster in Salzburg, a position he held for 44 years, during which time he ...

The first thing I feel when listening to Haydn is nobility.When I try to put into words what I feel in Haydn's music, words like "noble," "sound," "orderly," and "refined" come to mind. They are all ...

Massachusetts Poet Laureate and Clark University's Regie Gibson joins the Handel and Haydn Society to open their 2026 season ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dejan Lazić was soloist in his piano-concerto version of the Double Concerto.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...