Haydn Archive

Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 71 Composer Joseph Haydn is often called “Pappa Haydn” because of his amazing positive impact on the development of the string quartet. The music which Mozart and Beethoven composed were certainly …

Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven & Haydn This recording is quite unusual because we get to hear music that is rarely performed. This includes a transcription for string orchestra of Beethoven’s string quartet Op. 135, and …