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 ...

In a Haydn anniversary year, Louis Langree, music director of the Mostly Mozart festival, could imagine only one way to end the season. "For me, 'The Creation' is the highest, most climactic ...

Unlike Haydn, Mozart was an active member of the Freemasons and wrote a number of works for them, including one entitled “Masonic Funeral Music,” which employed Masonic symbolism.

While we don’t know for sure that Mozart and Beethoven ever met, we definitely do know that Haydn and Beethoven did. Haydn was one of the most important figures in Beethoven’s early career.

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.

Bernard Labadie, one of Michael Stern’s most popular pinch hitters, will lead the Kansas City Symphony in performing Haydn and Mozart Nov. 23-25 at Helzberg Hall.