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 ...

Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago Sunday. He was, by any measure, a prolific composer. In addition to the five dozen or so string quartets, he wrote hundreds of trios, piano sonatas, oratorios, masses, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has released a rare, 11-volume collection of the composer’s 62 piano sonatas. By David Allen Jean-Efflam Bavouzet faced both good ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.

HAYDN, HIRAM COLLINS (11 Dec. 1831-31 July 1913), pastor of FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (OLD STONE) and president of Western Reserve University, was born in Pompey, N.Y., to David E. and Lucinda (Cooley ...