Prokofiev's Second Quartet, Opus 92 is admittedly pushier music to start with -- bossier and less subtly conceived than Haydn's luminous little masterpiece.

Haydn's long life spanned many musical changes, a few of which he forged himself, like the development of the string quartet. WBGH in Boston features three string quartets playing Haydn in the studio.

Playing on gut strings with classical bows, they presented three quartets from across Haydn's lifetime that demonstrate his development of the form. Their approach was refreshingly individualised ...

Mozart dedicated his six famous quartets to Haydn, the pieces were inspired by Haydn’s quartets, and Mozart supposedly wept when Haydn left for England in 1791 sensing correctly that they might ...

Beethoven’s indebtedness to Haydn was particularly evident in the juxtaposition of the Quartet, Op. 50, No. 1, by Haydn, and the Quartet, Op 18, No. 3, by Beethoven, works composed about 12 ...

Three of his Op 20 quartets end with a fugue. In Haydn’s days, writing a fugue was something old fashioned, academic study material, too complicated for the modern listener. But Haydn, knowing this ...

Despite their different publishing numbers, Haydn wrote the three quartets of Op. 71 and the three of Op. 74 as one group, and all were commissioned by one Count Anton Apponyi.

The London Haydn Quartet started Beethoven's String Quartet in G major Op. 18, No. 2, with elegance, transcending this in the finale to introduce some of the elemental energy that the younger ...

Perhaps this should be a model for how society at large could operate." New Esterhazy Quartet: Haydn quartets. 4 p.m. Sat. St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell St., S.F. 4 p.m. Sun.