The Handel and Haydn Society closed out its bicentennial season this weekend with Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation,” by many estimations his greatest work and the apex of his creative powers. It was ...

How is it possible to depict chaos in music? Franz Joseph Haydn had an answer. Haydn (1732–1809) is The Grand Old Man of classical music, a composer whose career spanned the fading glory of the ...

Many of us see the created order. But Franz Joseph Haydn heard it. Everything - from the lowliest worm to the mightiest galloping horse, from the formlessness that preceded creation to God's ...

Haydn’s Creation, the culmination of his life’s work, in a legendary 1986 performance conducted by Leonard Bernstein in the exquisite Baroque splendor of the Benedictine Abbey of Ottobeuren, Bavaria, ...

The Indian premiere of F.J. Haydn’s ‘The Creation’, presented by the Madras Guild of Performing Arts (MGPA), in collaboration with the Gustav Mahler Society of Colombo (GMSC), promised an evening that ...

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Parisian audiences were Haydn-mad from the 1780s onwards – an enthusiasm that resulted most motably in the commission of the six ‘Paris’ Symphonies in the middle of the decade. Naturally, a little ...