Haydn Archive

Born in the USA to Swedish parents, conductor Herbert Blomstedt began his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at the University of Uppsala. He later studied conducting at the Juilliard …

Haydn composed the series of six quartets designated as Opus 20 in 1772. This group of of works finds the composer delving deeper, intensifying the music’s emotional expression and adding layers of complexity not found in …

The story behind this symphony’s title is as follows: Back in the 1700’s, composer Joseph Haydn’s patron was resident together with all his musicians and staff at his favorite summer palace in rural Hungary. The …

Joseph Haydn first conducted the Symphony No. 92 at the 7 July 1791 concert at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre at which he received his honorary Doctor’s degree. Haydn later told a friend, “I felt very silly in …

It was in the year 1774 that Joseph Haydn had his first set of solo keyboard sonatas published and that Mozart first tackled this compositional style. The five sonatas presented here all date from 1773-1783, …