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.

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

As record packages go, the Angeles Quartet’s set of the complete Haydn quartets is a sweet one. Philips put them on 21 slipcased discs that fit into a single, CD-sized box about 2 inches deep, which ...

Don't miss the WORLD PREMIERE of Alexandra du Bois' String Quartet No. 6, commissioned especially for the inaugural installment of CQ's Haydn: Dialogues project! Haydn: Dialogues is an ambitious multi ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Conceived by Richard Tognetti, Haydn for Everyone has been an ambitious three-year project from Melbourne Festival to present the ...

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 ...

When I studied composition with the late Leonard Stein, one of my regular assignments was to compose minuets for string quartet “in the style of Mozart and Haydn.” It was no accident that Stein ...

The Isidore String Quartet played three pieces Tuesday, and the program itself illustrated that dialogue between past and ...

Joseph Haydn’s biographers have searched his life for the moment when he conceived the idea of a string quartet. Did he have a grand epiphany of its sonic possibilities? Did he intuit that four ...