Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...

Beethoven was so overawed by Haydn’s talent and reputation as a quartet composer that when he came to publish his own early efforts he rearranged them as short piano pieces to avoid comparison.

Watch a sequence looks at another discovery of Herschel’s – infra-red. Haydn’s orchestral concerts were expensive and exclusive: many people discovered his symphonies through chamber ...

Haydn’s father was a wheelwright and the village sexton. Joseph was the second of his 12 children. His brother Michael, born five years later, also became a composer. Where did the music come from?

The Symphony will showcase a wealth of classical music during the “Beethoven. Brahms. Haydn. Hooten.” program — the ...

Donald Macleod takes a closer look at Haydn's family ties, including his younger brother and fellow composer Michael, with music including Haydn's sparkling Keyboard Concerto in D. Show more ...

To the array of recent recordings of the Haydn cello concertos, that of the young Norwegian virtuoso Truls Mork comes as a breath of fresh air—not bracing, as one might imagine from one who grew up ...

The making of this album was captured in the DW documentary "The Haydn Expedition," which will be released this December. The ...

When Joseph Haydn completed his fourth and final oratorio at the beginning of 1801 the 69yearold composer was famous throughout Europe Born in 1732 as the son of a humble wheelwright Haydn grew up ...