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.

When I studied composition with the late Leonard Stein, one of my regular assignments was to compose minuets for string quartet “in the style of Mozart and Haydn.” It was no accident that Stein ...

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 ...

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 ...

Later in the Classical period, society and audiences began to change. As the middle-class grew wealthier, there was a growing demand for entertainment and more public concert halls had to be built. It ...

They are the Holy Trinity of Classical-era music, all of them synonymous in one way or another with Vienna. But what was the relationship between Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven? Did they even know each ...

The young Beethoven - just over a week past his 20th birthday - first met the renowned Joseph Haydn on 26 December 1790 in Bonn, when Haydn and the impresario Johann Peter Salomon stopped off on their ...

Is This What We Want? is an unusual album. There's no music. No words. Instead, it's basically ... silent. That's because the 12 tracks were recorded in a bunch of empty performance spaces and studios ...

10 years after Joseph Haydn died, his body was to be transferred to a grand tomb, befitting his status as a musical genius. But when the grave was opened… the head was missing. Austrian composer Franz ...