Composer Joseph Haydn was a major contributor to the developmen of both symphonic form, as well as chamber music. It all began centuries ago, when folks joined together to make music.
The great popularity of the piano trio enabled Joseph Haydn to explore countless musical harmonic experiments; while the keyboard remains the central element in his musical structure, the strings give the composition a subtle coloration, and the violin is often assigned independent musical ideas.
This elegant three-way dialogue, conducted here by the Trio Wanderer, is as impressive for its originality as for its supreme stylistic virtuosity. Haydn was a past master at this compositional form, and he still remains so centuries later!
Here is the Haydn Trio number 44:
