(4) String Quartets (Divertimentos), Movements: E flat (spurious) Joseph Haydn, Composer Kodály Quartet (4) String Quartets (Divertimentos), Movements: D (spurious) Joseph Haydn, Composer Kodály ...
Contrasting sets from Amsterdam’s Dudok Quartet and the London Haydn Quartet prove illuminating. And Inside Music with Lucy Crowe Some 21 years separate the composition of two sets of Haydn string ...
Between 1757 and 1799, Franz Joseph Haydn completed 67 string quartets. Every one, even the lightweight early divertimentos, has something in it to enjoy. Many of the last quartets are masterpieces.
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In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...
What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.
A disc of 21 mazurkas, far from concentrating on too narrow a spectrum, only goes to show the variety of emotion and poetic expression that Chopin embodied in these sublime pieces. That impression is ...