The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 at London’s Royal College of Music by four young string players who shared a ...

The first of Haydn's Esterhazy symphonies, in Le Matin nothing is taken for granted, and its musical structure is full of startling moments How else should the most productive period of symphonic ...

Over the course of nearly 40 years and more than 100 works, Haydn took the symphony into totally new territory. Let Nicholas ...

Debates about "best" composers are silly, but in this year of Haydn, his admirers are seizing the opportunity to right a few wrongs when it comes to their favorite composer. And wronged they feel.

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 Haydn’s ...

Just days after composer Joseph Haydn died in 1809, grave robbers broke into the cemetery and opened his coffin. Unlike other cemetery thieves, they weren’t interested in removing jewelry or other ...

Haydn wrote 15 operas. Thanks to English Touring Opera, there’s a rare opportunity to see one of them this autumn. Haydn the opera composer. Really? The story of the symphony is unthinkable without ...

Nicholas Kenyon is our guide to recordings of Haydn's inventive 'Trauer' Symphony. Duration: 42:41 Haydn: Symphony No. 60 'Il Distratto' Charles Hazlewood explores Haydn's Symphony No.60 in C 'Il ...