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.

(6) String Quartets (Divertimentos), 'Sun', Movements: F minor Emerson Quartet Joseph Haydn, Composer (6) String Quartets, Movements: No. 2 in E flat, 'Joke' Joseph Haydn, Composer Emerson Quartet (3) ...

The St. Lawrence String Quartet, an acclaimed Canadian ensemble established in 1989, includes in its 25th-anniversary season a stop this weekend in Santa Fe. The foursome has instigated numerous ...

Between 1757 and 1799, Franz Joseph Haydn completed 67 string quartets. Every one, even the lightweight early divertimentos, has something in it to enjoy. Many of the last quartets are masterpieces.

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 ...

The Opus 20 string quartets by Haydn are breakthrough works that established the quartet style for generations. All four voices are equally important in a new, more emotional discourse that has left ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

A long-lost letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been found in the archives of a prominent French family. Unlike the new piece of Mozart music that recently turned up, this handwritten note, which ...

(6) String Quartets (Divertimentos), 'Sun', Movements: C Lindsay Qt Joseph Haydn, Composer (6) String Quartets (Divertimentos), 'Sun', Movements: F minor Lindsay Qt Joseph Haydn, Composer (6) String ...