Background In 1790 Haydn, by now the most famous composer in Europe, took up an invitation from the London-based concert producer Johann Peter Salomon to become his in-house composer. That meant ...

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.

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To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Ted Libbey considers the great composer's final set of symphonies. Joseph Haydn's last 12 symphonies, commissioned by the London impresario ...

A vibrant new recording under the direction of Harry Christophers. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 26 August 2013. In Harry Christophers’ expert hands, Haydn comes to life in this, the first in a ...

Rediscovering Haydn's symphonies, period style Richard Wigmore Monday, January 9, 2017 Ottavio Dantone’s recording Haydn’s Symphonies Nos 79 and 81 is further evidence that, on period instruments ...

Joseph Haydn is every bit the equal of Mozart and Beethoven but loses out in popular appeal because he was so prolific. Very few of his invariably excellent pieces stand out from the crowd the way ...

We’re often told that music is about “feelings”. But a lot of classical music offers something else entirely. The great writer on music Hans Keller defined it as “the pleasurably delayed gratification ...

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.