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.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...

A look at Franz Joseph Haydn, the Classical grand vizier who produced a staggering uninterrupted flow of masterworks. I’ve heard Haydn composed hundreds of pieces, but are they any good? That’s the ...

A well-known pianist colleague confessed a dislike of Haydn because “his music is like playing parlour games in Latin.” So let’s play some parlour games: In what year did Mozartkugeln (chocolate balls ...

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, ...

Experience the essence of eighteenth century France in this chamber music program of Devienne, Rameau, Jadin, Mozart and Haydn. This program includes two flute quartets by the lesser-known French ...

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 ...

We apologize, but this video has failed to load. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s classical chamber orchestra series ends with a big bang — literally, if you consider how we think the universe began ...

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