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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...