The holiday season is usually hectic for the New York Philharmonic, and this year the orchestra's December schedule has been particularly diffuse, with ''Messiah'' performances, chamber performances and a pair of ''Contact!'' concerts built around H. K. Gruber's ''Frankenstein!!'' The orchestra took last week off, but its New Year's Eve concert --...
The conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has long demonstrated its mettle in Baroque and classical fare. More recently it has ventured into romantic and contemporary terrain, which is invariably harder to navigate without a conductor. In honor of its 40th anniversary next year Orpheus has commissioned four new pieces through its Project 440, in...
The Mostly Mozart Festival has taken justifiable pride in its programming innovations in recent years, with this summer's focus on Stravinsky as a case in point. But the festival still maintains some of its more time-honored strengths. From its early days, for example, Mostly Mozart has introduced conductors and soloists who have not been heard...
(Franz) Joseph Haydn (31. marts 1732 - 31. maj 1809 i Wien) var en østrigsk komponist. Haydn skabte sonateformen og den klassiske symfoni i fire satser. Han indledte wienerklassikken og komponerede over 100 symfonier.
Som østriger tilbragte Haydn meget af sin karriere som musiker for den velstående Eszterházy-familie på dens ejendom. Da han stort set var isoleret fra andre komponister og tendenser i musikverdenen, var han, som han selv beskrev det, "tvunget til at være original".
Joseph Haydn var en af wienerklassikkens vigtigste eksponenter sammen med Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart og Ludwig van Beethoven.