When Joseph Haydn completed his fourth and final oratorio ... Swieten then presented to Hadyn a libretto on the theme of The Seasons he found in the old composer a worthy partner in his own ...

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 ...

As Kapellmeister, Haydn now turned his attention to choral works. From this period come the six late Masses, The Creation and The Seasons. In his mid-sixties, Haydn’s health began to fail and he ...