Joseph Haydn nicknamed his Symphony No. 47 ‘The Palindrome’ because he used a neat bit of musical trickery to create a piece that’s perfectly symmetrical. However great a piece of music is, it usually ...

Fresh from the new releases shelf, the Mosaoques Quartet plays the Minuet from Joseph Haydn's String Quartet in C, Opus 64, No. 1. (Astrie label) ...

Jonathan Cohen is on a Haydn kick. As one of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s artistic partners, the English conductor, harpsichordist and cellist has been using recent visits to conduct some of ...

Music of Beethoven is coming up later in the hour, but first we'll feature one of his teachers. L'Archibudelli plays the Minuet from Haydn's Op. 77, No. 2 String Quartet.

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...

Haydn is known as ‘the father of the string quartet’ because he was the first to compose four-part music for two violins, a viola and a cello on a regular basis. Beethoven was so overawed by Haydn’s ...