In a letter to the composer Zelter in 1829, Goethe described the string quartet as a conversation between four reasonable, intelligent people, and no one fostered that conversation with as much wit ...

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.

In Charleston, South Carolina, Geoff Nuttal and the St. Lawrence Quartet play Haydn’s classic Emperor Quartet for Scott. Scott Yoo Performs Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata Scott Yoo, host of "Now Hear ...

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.

"Around string players, it's a misty goal, like climbing Mount Everest. Everybody aspires to it." Violinist and violist Anthony Martin is talking about performing all 68 of Joseph Haydn's completed ...

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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 ...

Conceived by Richard Tognetti, Haydn for Everyone has been an ambitious three-year project from Melbourne Festival to present the complete string quartets of Joseph Haydn. The London Haydn Quartet ...

For string quartet lovers, a new release by the Takács Quartet is always reason to celebrate. In recent years, their vividly intense recordings of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, not to mention Bartok ...