WATERLOO - New York-based Attacca String Quartet will live up to its name Nov. 16 and 17 when it performs the first instalment of a multi-year project entitled Haydn 68, the composer’s complete string ...

Franz Joseph Haydn is revered by music lovers as the Father of the Symphony, and indeed he was the first figure to achieve greatness in that genre. But about the time he began writing symphonies, he ...

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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 ...