Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Charles Hazlewood outlines the plans for Haydn broadcasts during the Composers of the Year celebrations. Charles was filmed specially for the website in the ...
Haydn and his brother Michael were choirboys at St Stephen ... Austrian national anthem in his ‘Emperor Quartet’. Several composers have written variations on the national anthem theme ...
Michael Haydn's Requiem in C minor: a guide to the best recordings David Threasher Friday, March 21, 2025 In our latest introduction to the history and recordings of a less familiar work, David ...
The making of this album was captured in the DW documentary "The Haydn Expedition," which will be released this December. The ...
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, ...
There is only one real function of film music,” Igor Stravinsky wrote in 1946 in the Musical Digest, “namely to feed the ...
Haydn’s father was a wheelwright and the village sexton. Joseph was the second of his 12 children. His brother Michael, born five years later, also became a composer. Where did the music come from?