It was an exciting time that produced some great music from composers such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

In this short film Howard Goodall analyses 18th century music, Joseph Haydn' impact on composition, and the rise of the symphony and opera as prominent musical forms. The simplicity, elegance and ...

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, ...

He had always wanted to perform the Haydn, but before agreeing to program the four-movement symphony, music director Guido Lamell needed to establish that Prager could actually conduct a work of ...

It’s said that, though he corresponded with her, he never opened her letters. The turning-point in his life came in 1761 when Prince Anton Esterházy, who’d heard one of Haydn’s symphonies at Lukavec, ...

Music director Taichi Fukumura gives his first chamber concert with the orchestra, featuring Stacy Garrop's 2020 ...

The Newport Symphony Orchestra continues its 2024-25 concert season with “The Land, the Sea, and the Birds,” with ...

Season of the Symphony Orchestra of India at NCPA, Mumbai—headlined by Maestro Zubin Mehta and Sir Mark Elder—promises a host ...