Word: haydn
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Dunster House Music Society. Soprano Ellen Archer, violinist Dan Banner, cellist Olsen Young and pianist Michael Strauss will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn and Britten. Dunster House Music Library, 5:30 p.m. Free...
...Haydn's Die Schopfung, Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood...
...January, Christopher Hogwood offered a concert performance, with the Handel and Haydn Society, of Mozart's second and last effort in the serious vein, La Clemenza di Tito. The renewal of these two pieces, which circumscribe Mozart's years of maturity and his best musical output, has been the major revelation in the months after the festivities anticlimaxed with innumerable performances of the Requiem last November...
...with a capital "C", it would denote a very narrow body of music composed primarily during the second half of the eighteenth century, according to a number of more-or-less definite rules guiding the practice of composition. In this sense, the only truly Classical composers are people like Haydn and Mozart (and even this comes under debate). Neither Bach nor Wagner would qualify...
Part of the problem lay in the intrinsic stodginess of the Handel & Haydn Society...