And wronged they feel. Everybody knows Mozart's name, whereas Joseph Haydn's is an afterthought. Mozart was a wunderkind, a prodigy with a divine spark and a wicked sense of humor, who wrote ...

Haydn and Mozart were both Austrians who spent much of their professional lives in Vienna. A generation separated them, but Mozart’s 35 years were entirely contained within Haydn’s 77.

Conducting and dance bear a family resemblance under most circumstances, but not many conductors draw the connection as closely as Paul McCreesh. The British early-music specialist led the San ...

It is believed that Mozart himself played the viola part, which he transposed up a semitone to enhance its sonority and brilliance. Finally, is Joseph Haydn’s Symphony no. 97 in C major, Hob. I:97.

In Haydn’s familiar Symphony No. 104, “London,” and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ less-so Symphony No. 1, the IPO more than met that challenge, its sound finely balanced ...

Commissioned from American composer Derrick Skye, the one-movement Deliverance was a “transcultural” string quartet, blending Persian classical melodic material with rhythmic elements from West and ...

Along with the familiar Mozart Symphony No. 39, it included a rarely performed but quite spirited Haydn Mass in B-flat. The latter is nicknamed the Creation Mass for a brief musical quotation from ...

Two of them, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Mozart, we know well. The other two, the Bohemian composer Johann Wanhal and the splendidly named Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, we hardly know at all.

Don't miss the highly anticipated US debut of the Australian Haydn Ensemble! Catch their program of Haydn, Mozart, and J.C. Bach as they explore 18th-century reflections on the times of day. With ...

The beautiful notes of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart filled the Miller House parlor last weekend as Daniel Adam Maltz, a fortepianist based in Vienna, Austria, performed for the ...