If it weren’t for Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn would be the most famous composer of the Classical era. And yet, Haydn and Mozart were friends and mutual admirers, and Beethoven studied composition with ...

In the 1970s the now-classic cycle from the Beaux Arts did much to rehabilitate Haydn’s largely neglected keyboard trios.

Joseph Haydn spent three decades of his life perfecting his art at the Esterhazy Palace, south of Vienna. Music is still performed at the Palace and The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is one of the groups that ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

Hailed for his musical originality and innovation, Russian composer and pianist Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was considered so avant-garde in his early days that he hardly seemed influenced by the ...

If you like to hear Haydn sonatas crisply delivered, i's dotted, t's crossed, with good fingerwork, and in a clean recording, then the Chandos cycle by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet should have ...

BURLINGTON — The music of Joseph Haydn often takes a backseat to his peer Mozart, but not Friday at the University of Vermont Recital Hall. The vivid imagination, humor and grandeur of Haydn’s solo ...

Keyboard Trio No. 18 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer Keyboard Trio No. 21 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer Keyboard Trio No. 26 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer ...

The first volume of Naxos’s new series of Haydn piano trios includes the most famous Haydn trio of all, the one nicknamed the Gypsy Rondo Trio, after its Rondo all’ Ongarese finale. It’s one of a set ...

Music Anton Kuerti: Haydn, Six Piano Sonatas Canada’s great Beethoven interpreter turns to Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809), whose piano sonatas aren’t appreciated enough. Haydn’s music is focused more ...