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 ...

Papa Haydn Photo courtesy of Papa Haydn. Whether you love Portland dessert institution Papa Haydn or simply enjoy a bargain, you’ll want to swing by one of the business’s two locations at some point ...

Premieres Friday, September 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/nowhearthis and the PBS Video app When Joseph Haydn visited England, he was so taken ...

The String Quartet version op. 51 Hob XX/1B is the most often performed and recorded. But it is not the original and only presumably (though not certainly) a transcription of his own – as opposed to ...

Just days after composer Joseph Haydn died in 1809, grave robbers broke into the cemetery and opened his coffin. Unlike other cemetery thieves, they weren’t interested in removing jewelry or other ...

The young Beethoven - just over a week past his 20th birthday - first met the renowned Joseph Haydn on 26 December 1790 in Bonn, when Haydn and the impresario Johann Peter Salomon stopped off on their ...

Nicholas Kenyon is our guide to recordings of Haydn's inventive 'Trauer' Symphony. Duration: 42:41 Haydn: Symphony No. 60 'Il Distratto' Charles Hazlewood explores Haydn's Symphony No.60 in C 'Il ...

Is This What We Want? is an unusual album. There's no music. No words. Instead, it's basically ... silent. That's because the 12 tracks were recorded in a bunch of empty performance spaces and studios ...

DROP the Dead Donkey actress Haydn Gwynne has died aged 66. The Bafta-nominated star will be remembered for her incredible acting career. Please provide a valid email ...

Renowned English soprano Carolyn Sampson joins the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra for ‘Mozart + Haydn' at NEC's Jordan ...