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New releases from the Maxwell Quartet and Kristian Bezuidenhout. Plus, the rush hour with In Tune Joseph Haydn is sometimes regarded as a connoisseur’s composer with too little popular appeal, so it’s ...

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...

Humorous, earnest, prolific and always deeply humane, the Austrian composer is credited with inventing the symphony and the string quartet. Even if that’s not strictly true, his creativity shaped ...

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.

Sonata for Keyboard No. 5 (Divertimento) Joseph Haydn, Composer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Sonata for Keyboard No. 51 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Joseph Haydn, Composer Adagio ma non troppo ...

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That great 18th-century musical observer Charles Burney responded to Haydn's Op 76 quartets by describing them as being "full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects". The historically informed ...

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 ...