Tag Archives: Franz Joseph Haydn
The Greatest Musical Composition Ever – II
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 3rd March 2021Joseph Haydn wrote 14 masses. The last six were written for the Esterházy family to celebrate the name day of Princess Maria Hermenegild, the wife of Prince Nikolaus II and a friend of the composer. They mark the the last period of Haydn’s enormous musical output and are among the greatest liturgical compositions in Western music. In my opinion, the…
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Haydn Piano Trios
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th April 2020No great composer wrote as much music as did Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). The quality of his music is as great as its amount. So vast is his output that it’s hard to count all his compositions. He is famed as the father of both the string quartet and the symphony. He wrote 68 of the…
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San Francisco Symphony Plays Haydn, Sibelius, and Beethoven
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 16th September 2016On Thursday evening, September 15, the San Francisco Symphony played Haydn’s Symphony # 69 for the first time in it’s long history. Its Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas conducted. The orchestra played the short work with a lush sound better suited to the symphonic works of the succeeding century. The concluding movement marked presto was…
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All Haydn’s Symphonies for $22
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 4th December 2013This says it all. You may never get around to listening to all 104 of them but just having these works at you call is worth far more than $22.56. The conductor and orchestra are superb. And the symphonies are one of the greatest accomplishments of Western music. A great gift for a music lover….
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