Franz Joseph Haydn never set foot in North America, yet his musical syntax left an indelible impact on the early years of Moravian College and the American Moravian Church. “He was a factor. You have ...

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, ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...

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, ...

The 53rd season for Chamber Singers of Iowa City concludes our journey from darkness to light with a performance of Joseph Haydn’s masterpiece, The Creation. Completed in 1798, this oratorio remains ...

Many of us see the created order. But Franz Joseph Haydn heard it. Everything - from the lowliest worm to the mightiest galloping horse, from the formlessness that preceded creation to God's ...

Debates about "best" composers are silly, but in this year of Haydn, his admirers are seizing the opportunity to right a few wrongs when it comes to their favorite composer. And wronged they feel.