Among the winners is the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, receiving the Opus Klassik in the best orchestra category for a ...

In this short film Howard Goodall analyses 18th century music, Joseph Haydn' impact on composition, and the rise of the symphony and opera as prominent musical forms. The simplicity, elegance and ...

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, ...

Joseph Haydn was an Austrian musician ... well-respected composers of his time. As well as symphonies, string quartets and piano trios, Haydn wrote a vast number of solo piano pieces, songs ...

Haydn’s father was a wheelwright and the village sexton. Joseph was the second of his 12 children ... The turning-point in his life came in 1761 when Prince Anton Esterházy, who’d heard one of Haydn’s ...