On Feb. 20, the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave one of their odder concerts of the season. Featuring guest conductor Alan T.

In a city torn apart by war, an enemy soldier shatters Joseph Haydn’s isolation - and quells his loneliness. David Suchet narrates a moment of unexpected beauty amidst the decay.

Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, 45 piano trios, 62 piano sonatas, 14 masses and 26 operas, amongst countless other scores. Life and Music The son of a wheelwright ...

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 ...

The famous first movement of the Haydn Horn Concerto is now available for players to feature in their solo repertoire.

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?

Germany's top classical music prize, the Opus Klassik, goes to a recording of Joseph Haydn's music by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. The making of the album is featured in a new DW ...

The Dallas Chamber Music Society presented the Viano Quartet — (from left) violinists Hao Zhou and Lucy Wang, cellist Tate Zawadiuk and violist Aiden Kane — at Southern Methodist University's ...