WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

These days, the string quartet as an ensemble is a tried and true form of chamber music, but it’s only within the past three ...

WATERLOO - New York-based Attacca String Quartet will live up to its name Nov. 16 and 17 when it performs the first instalment of a multi-year project entitled Haydn 68, the composer’s complete string ...

Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...

"They are some of our very favourite pieces and represent Haydn at the height of his success and compositional skill." write the Maxwell Quartet of Haydn's opus 74. Following on from their releases of ...

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