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 ...

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 ...

“On the Sublime” is a treatise from early in the Common Era by an unknown author, conventionally styled Longinus. Some scholars suspect that Longinus was a Hellenized Jew because he or she paraphrased ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nicholas Kenyon is our guide to recordings of Haydn's inventive 'Trauer' Symphony. Duration: 42:41 Haydn: Symphony No. 60 'Il Distratto' Charles Hazlewood explores Haydn's Symphony No.60 in C 'Il ...