Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago Sunday. He was, by any measure, a prolific composer. In addition to the five dozen or so string quartets, he wrote hundreds of trios, piano sonatas, oratorios, masses, ...
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How Many Musical Languages Were There in Haydn's Time? Seven Keywords for Reading 18th-Century Music
IntroductionHaydn is Classical, Bach is Baroque, and then through Beethoven, we arrive at the Romantic era.When looking at ...
Humorous, earnest, prolific and always deeply humane, the Austrian composer is credited with inventing the symphony and the string quartet. Even if that’s not strictly true, his creativity shaped ...
A small step in the evolution of the trumpet. “Ear Trumpet 1”. Photo by Eknath Gomphotherium, used with permission. We’re back with a new episode! Whooo! How did the trumpet morph from a simple horn ...
Ivan Hewett explains why the Austrian’s humour and common touch make his music ideal for a crisis Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing ...
The easiest way for amateur music lovers to get to know orchestral pieces used to be through piano transcriptions and chamber arrangements. Liszt’s versions of Beethoven symphonies are the genre’s ...
When discussing Haydn’s music it's difficult to avoid using words like ‘elegant’, ‘witty’ and ‘brio’, but I'll do my best. The writer E.T.A Hoffman should shoulder much of the blame for Haydn's ...
One wrote six sonatas and claimed they were by Haydn. Another used a ghostwriter to write his symphony – and pretended to be deaf. So how did they manage to hoodwink the experts? In 1993, completely ...
The Emerson String Quartet cultivates the full range of the quartet repertoire, right up to the most contemporary offerings. But every quartet needs to revisit the source periodically, and that means ...
Haydn comes to Trenton and Beethoven goes to Freehold this weekend. Pianist Stephan Moller will undertake an epic journey encompassing all 32 Beethoven sonatas, presented in chronological order, on ...
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