In recent years, a number of academics, including myself, have challenged the notion of Mozart writing primarily in a flawless fashion, and thereby explain his compositional process as significantly ...

Haydn and Mozart played string quartets together in Vienna in the 1780s. Shortly after Haydn’s body was buried it was dug up. His head was cut off and removed by amateur phrenologists who then ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Music & Letters Vol. 89, No. 3, Aug., 2008 Instrumental Arias or Sonic Tableaux: 'V... The reception of Haydn's early string quartets is chequered.

Like it or not, we live in a time of anxious uncertainty.  It is easy to think of earlier times as being calmer and less ...

It’s written for a string quartet - made up of two violins ... 1810 and two of the ‘giants’ of classical music are Haydn and Mozart. Music has developed dramatically since the Medieval ...

The Spokane String Quartet will perform at the Bing Crosby Theater on Sunday. General admission tickets are $25 for adults, ...

Mozart was 25, nearly a quarter of a century younger than Haydn. The two became close friends, for Mozart admired Haydn’s music (his first six Viennese string quartets are dedicated to him) while the ...

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, ...