LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- The Acclaimed Ataria String Quartet performed at Viterbo University Sunday. The group has performed at ...

Mozart dedicated six of his string quartets to Haydn, the most esteemed composer at the time. “Haydn is a figure who often appears in writing about Mozart and vice versa. The British Library owns the ...

Haydn and Mozart played string quartets together in Vienna in the 1780s. Shortly after Haydn’s body was buried it was dug up. His head was cut off and removed by amateur phrenologists who then ...

Whatever difficult circumstances surrounded Mozart's relations with Dejean, who commissioned the flute quartets, there is no evidence that they affected the music, despite the composer's open ...

Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, 45 piano trios, 62 piano sonatas, 14 masses and 26 operas, amongst countless other scores. Life and Music The son of a wheelwright ...

Experts suggest it may contain the earliest known reference to his celebrated Haydn Quartets — dedicated ... Its resurfacing has thrilled historians, as Mozart’s letters often reveal his ...

Mozart wrote the quartets from 1782-1785 with the intention of dedicating them to his closest friend and mentor, Joseph Haydn, who at the time was known as the greatest living composer of the ...

The two became close friends, for Mozart admired Haydn’s music (his first six Viennese string quartets are dedicated to him) while the ever-generous Haydn described Mozart as ‘the greatest composer ...

60 piano sonatas and 83 string quartets! He taught both Mozart (the two were great friends) and Beethoven (they didn't get along, Beethoven thought Haydn was 'boring') and he helped both of them ...