In recent years, a number of academics, including myself, have challenged the notion of Mozart writing primarily in a flawless fashion, and thereby explain his compositional process as significantly ...

Haydn and Mozart played string quartets together in ... while Michael sang beautifully, Franz Joseph sang ‘like a crow’. Haydn’s dismissal from the choir would have been on account of ...

Joseph was the second of his 12 children ... Mozart was 25, nearly a quarter of a century younger than Haydn. The two became close friends, for Mozart admired Haydn’s music (his first six Viennese ...

He taught both Mozart (the two were great friends) and Beethoven (they didn't get along, Beethoven thought Haydn was 'boring') and he helped both of them in their careers afterwards by telling ...

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, ...

Although increasingly rejected by scholars, the label Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress’), which derives from the slightly later German literary movement of that name, is still widely used to ...

The Handel and Haydn Society will celebrate Haydn + Mozart in the new year with a dazzling pairing of an H+H premiere from Mozart with two of Haydn's masterpieces. In one of his final performances ...

"Without Haydn there was no Mozart, no Beethoven ... Klassik in the best orchestra category for a recent recording of Joseph ...