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Joseph Haydn Biographical Sketch

Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in the small Austrian town of Rohrau, north of the Neusiedlersee. At the age of eight this son of a wheelwright traveled to Vienna to enter the famous St. Stephen’s Choir School. This trip was the first step in a journey that would fashion Haydn into the most famous composer of his day, and the father of much of the music still enjoyed today.
The Technique of Chromatic Completion in Haydn’s Late Masses - by Edward Green

Frequently in his late vocal music—in all genres large and small, sacred and secular—Haydn employs chromatic completion. By which is meant that there are structural units, cycles of musical time, defined within by the gradual unfolding of all twelve members of the chromatic aggregate. What is remarkable is ...

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Haydn’s Farewell Symphony - the Musical Aftermath of an Anecdote - by Christine Siegert

The compositional response to Haydn’s works in the second half of the twentieth century has up to this point scarcely been investigated. Understandably, it focuses on Haydn’s more prominent works. An examination reveals that the reception of the “Farewell Symphony“ plays an exceptional role...

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