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.

Between 1757 and 1799, Franz Joseph Haydn completed 67 string quartets. Every one, even the lightweight early divertimentos, has something in it to enjoy. Many of the last quartets are masterpieces.

The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the music of Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet, and Scottish folk music in their latest release, this week’s Feature Album on ABC ...

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.

"They are some of our very favourite pieces and represent Haydn at the height of his success and compositional skill." write the Maxwell Quartet of Haydn's opus 74. Following on from their releases of ...