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.

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REVIEW Every string quartet worth its rosin plays Haydn. None, though, plays Haydn like the London Haydn Quartet. Where others treat the Classical-period master with deference, these accomplished ...

Franz Joseph Haydn is revered by music lovers as the Father of the Symphony, and indeed he was the first figure to achieve greatness in that genre. But about the time he began writing symphonies, he ...

The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the music of Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet, and Scottish folk music in their latest release, this week’s Feature Album on ABC ...

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 ...