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 and ...

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That great 18th-century musical observer Charles Burney responded to Haydn's Op 76 quartets by describing them as being "full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects". The historically informed ...

Inside Chamber Music is a new music education series that Asia Society Hong Kong Center is co-presenting with Premiere Performances. Each Inside Chamber Music evening combines a streamed lecture from ...

WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

We hear the String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 by Haydn, played by the Corigliano (kor-eel-YAH-no) Quartet at the Grand Canyon Music Festival.

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...

In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...

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