Franz Joseph Haydn never gets the attention he deserves. His friend Mozart and his student Beethoven tend to soak up most of the spotlight, but neither of those guys is called the “father” of anything ...

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Ted Libbey considers the great composer's final set of symphonies. Joseph Haydn's last 12 symphonies, commissioned by the London impresario ...

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 ...

Symphony No. 19 Giovanni Antonini, Conductor Basel Chamber Orchestra Joseph Haydn, Composer Symphony No. 80 Joseph Haydn, Composer Giovanni Antonini, Conductor Basel Chamber Orchestra Symphony No. 81 ...

We've been hearing all week from an Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra concert that took place at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Yo-Yo performed as soloist in two concertos on that concert. Then, at ...

Among the many reasons to love Haydn — his puckish wit, his ingenuity, his fecund imagination — it must also be said that the man knew his way around a fart joke. The double-forte bassoon explosion on ...

HAYDN: Symphonies Nos. 93-98. George Szell conducting The Cleveland Orchestra. Sony Classical 8869748904-2: two CDs. Certain recordings deserve to remain in the catalogue indefinitely, and these ...

Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago, on May 31, 1809, at 12:40 in the morning. He was 77, an old man for the time, but no one who knew him would have called Haydn aged. Energy and resilience marked his ...

When the life of a famous artist is cut short by an early death, we as a society often feel like we’ve been robbed of some great masterwork. Speculation ensues. Consider the following: Beethoven’s 10 ...

The 13-year-old schoolboy wanted to know why no score was available for Haydn’s Symphony No. 58. His teacher told him that “forty years ago a German publisher [Breitkopf & Härtel] started out to ...