When discussing Haydn’s music it's difficult to avoid using words like ‘elegant’, ‘witty’ and ‘brio’, but I'll do my best. The writer E.T.A Hoffman should shoulder much of the blame for Haydn's ...

The American Classical Orchestra has unveiled its 41st season in 2025-26, with performances spanning four orchestral concerts led by Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford at Alice Tully Hall, ...

Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...

The easiest way for amateur music lovers to get to know orchestral pieces used to be through piano transcriptions and chamber arrangements. Liszt’s versions of Beethoven symphonies are the genre’s ...

Musician and composer Rob Kapilow of the "What Makes it Great?" performance series is in Boston to perform and dissect Haydn's Opus 76. Kapilow joins WBUR's Morning Edition to share what he loves ...

Franz Joseph Haydn was, of course, an erudite, serious-minded 19th-century composer of classical music. But there was a playful side to the austere Austrian’s works that casual listeners might not get ...