When Haydn completed his Six Quartets, Op 50, in 1787, they triggered a Europe-wide bidding war among music publishers. As well they might: this was Haydn’s first full-scale set of quartets since the ...
WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.
Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...
'These were the quartets that made us fall in love with the genre': Dudok Quartet Amsterdam on Haydn
The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...
To mark the 200th anniversary of his death BBC Radio 3 presents a series of programming on Haydn, an international superstar composer who, in his day, was considered more famous than Mozart. Haydn is ...
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