The Quartet also won prizes at the competitions in Trapani, Weimar and Graz. This content was published on March 16, 2006 - 11:37 1 minute ...

The six string quartets of Haydn’s Op 33 include two of his most popular – the ones nicknamed the Joke and the Bird, justifying his claim that the works were written “in a completely new and ...

Haydn was 40 when he wrote his first important string quartets, a set of six grouped as Op. 20. At the time, he was supervising the musical life at Prince Nicholas Esterhazy's gilded palace ...

Mozart dedicated his six famous quartets to Haydn, the pieces were inspired by Haydn’s quartets, and Mozart supposedly wept when Haydn left for England in 1791 sensing correctly that they might ...

Haydn, Mozart and a couple of pals played Haydn's Op. 33 String Quartets together in Vienna, and Mozart loved them so much he was inspired to write his own set. The Daedalus Quartet plays one of ...

Haydn String Quartets Op.54 and 55 The London Haydn Quartet (Hyperion) A 1789 playbill for a “professional concert” at Hanover Square in London announced a new set of quartets by Joseph Haydn.

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted ...

Haydn — String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 Korngold — String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34 Beethoven — String Quartet No. 12 in E♭ major, Op. 127 The Second Viennese School might have closed ...

The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the music of Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet, and Scottish folk music in their latest release, this week’s Feature Album on ...

London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA 67877 (2 CDs for the price of 1)**** This may be the third volume in the London Haydn Quartet's survey of the quartets of Haydn, but it's also the point at which ...