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.

Steven Isserlis, cello; other soloists; Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Roger Norrington, conductor (RCA Victor). Schumann: Cello Concerto Isserlis, cello; Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Christoph ...

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 ...

The documentary film "The Haydn Expedition" tells the story of artistic and democratic freedom, and premiered at a special event in Hamburg. The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Joseph Haydn ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...

Haydn is known as ‘the father of the string quartet’ because he was the first to compose four-part music for two violins, a viola and a cello on a regular basis. Beethoven was so overawed by Haydn’s ...

Joseph Haydn nicknamed his Symphony No. 47 ‘The Palindrome’ because he used a neat bit of musical trickery to create a piece that’s perfectly symmetrical. However great a piece of music is, it usually ...

An organ concerto is an odd duck. It doesn't fit into a church service, and most 18th-century theaters didn't have organs. But Haydn probably wrote his Organ Concerto in C to honor an old girlfriend ...