Among the winners is the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, receiving the Opus Klassik in the best orchestra category for a recent recording of Joseph Haydn's London Symphonies 101 and 103 under ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 symphonies at Lukavec, invited him to become second ...

It was an exciting time that produced some great music from composers such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Although increasingly rejected by scholars, the label Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress’), which derives from the slightly later German literary movement of that name, is still widely used to ...

Ilkley Philharmonic Orchestra’s finely judged performance of this great symphony, conducted by John Anderson, evidently vindicated that 1794 review. The warmth of audience response at All Saints ...