Joseph Haydn spent three decades of his life perfecting his art at the Esterhazy Palace, south of Vienna. Music is still performed at the Palace and The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is one of the groups that ...

One of the summits of Viennese classicism, Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross—a sequence of seven sacred adagios, with an intro and conclusion—is available in arrangements for string… ...

Haydn’s Seven Last Words is a powerful guide for Good Friday meditation. The church has preached the Cross from its apostolic beginnings at Pentecost, but it seems that once people heeded the message ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of his death BBC Radio 3 presents a series of programming on Haydn, an international superstar composer who, in his day, was considered more famous than Mozart. Haydn is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Haydn’s death in May 1809 was anything but peaceful. The old man who had worked for so long in the quiet ...

Haydn Piano TrioFrom a recording by the Borodin Trio, we begin with music by Haydn. We hear the closing movement from his Piano Trio No. 25.