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.

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 ...

Donald Macleod enjoys a masterclass in string quartet writing from one of the great masters of the form, Joseph Haydn. Show more Donald Macleod surveys the string quartets of Joseph Haydn. From his ...

The Angeles String Quartet makes a move toward international prominence with the release next week of a 21-CD set of the complete Haydn string quartets on a major label (Philips). It’s an event ...

Chatter's January 24 concert features a groundbreaking string quartet by Joseph Haydn, plus two works for strings and natural ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...