Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, 45 piano trios, 62 piano sonatas, 14 masses and 26 operas, amongst countless other scores. Life and Music The son of a wheelwright ...

As Kapellmeister, Haydn now turned his attention to choral works. From this period come the six late Masses, The Creation and The Seasons. In his mid-sixties, Haydn’s health began to fail and he ...

“Originally called a Mass for Troubled Times, the greatest of Haydn’s masses came to be known as the Nelson Mass because its ...