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, ...

Most people know Joseph Haydn as Austria's great master of Classical style, and the man who taught Mozart and Beethoven. He is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String ...

We hear the Trumpet Concerto by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), with Vienna Philharmonic principal trumpeter ...

Haydn We open the hour with music by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) played the way he may have heard it himself: Richard Burnett plays the opening movement from Haydn's Piano Sonata No. 61 on an ...

covering the period from 1786 to his death in 1809. Haydn's Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour On The Cross is one of the most remarkable and original musical works of the entire 18th century.

On May 31, 1809, composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna; he was 77. In 1819 poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, N.Y. In 1889 floods killed 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pa., after a dam ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Haydn through another musical form apart from the symphony that the composer made his own, his music for trio ...

Donald Macleod follows Haydn's journey from humble choirboy to Europe's most celebrated composer and shines the spotlight on music from Haydn's many settings of the Mass.