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 ...

The Choir of Westminster Abbey is joined by leading chamber orchestra Britten Sinfonia for this performance of Haydn’s great masterpiece The Creation. Members of the Abbey Choir and celebrated soprano ...

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 ...

He has extended his work to write on the liturgical background of Haydn's late masses, a brief history of music at Boston College, and provided record liner notes for Penelope Crawford's recording of ...