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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rare Mozart Letter Pitching His Famed Haydn Quartets Heads to Auction "I cannot let these go as cheaply," the composer wrote. Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (ca. 1780).

The quartet, made up of Royal Northern Sinfonia musicians Sarah Roberts, first violin, Sophie Appleton, second violin, James Slater, viola, and Tom Rathbone, cello, performed works by Haydn, Arthur ...

MUSIC REVIEW ‘The Marriage of Figaro’: Handel and Haydn Society revels in Mozart’s madcap world On Thursday night at Symphony Hall, the production served up an inventive bare-bones ...

This weekend’s Albany Symphony Orchestra program at the Troy Saving Bank Music Hall, features two works by Mozart. One features selections from his popular opera “The Marriage of Figaro.” ...