Between 1757 and 1799, Franz Joseph Haydn completed 67 string quartets. Every one, even the lightweight early divertimentos, has something in it to enjoy. Many of the last quartets are masterpieces.
Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...
A long-lost letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been found in the archives of a prominent French family. Unlike the new piece of Mozart music that recently turned up, this handwritten note, which ...
The host of Now Hear This and Mexico City Philharmonic music director shares the pieces by Joseph Haydn, also known as “the king of strings,” that mean the most to him. A playlist is available where ...
(6) String Quartets (Divertimentos), 'Sun', Movements: F minor Emerson Quartet Joseph Haydn, Composer (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Joseph Haydn, Composer Emerson Quartet (3) ...
'These were the quartets that made us fall in love with the genre': Dudok Quartet Amsterdam on Haydn
The reason we play string quartet is that we want to share the heart of music with our audience. Music is communication, and the string quartet is the ultimate form of communication. We communicate ...
The Hausmann Quartet joins again with the Maritime Museum of San Diego for the eighth season of “Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime,” beginning Feb. 26. The quarterly concert series is performed ...
In Charleston, South Carolina, Geoff Nuttal and the St. Lawrence Quartet play Haydn’s classic Emperor Quartet for Scott. Scott Yoo Performs Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata Scott Yoo, host of "Now Hear ...
Joseph Haydn’s biographers have searched his life for the moment when he conceived the idea of a string quartet. Did he have a grand epiphany of its sonic possibilities? Did he intuit that four ...
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 ...
The Schmitt edition also differs in the more nitty-gritty details of dynamics, articulation and so on – those things that excite musicologists but are less likely to bother all but the most obsessive ...
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