Joseph Haydn

Weekly SpinOn: Time

Time is an essential element of music. Music is the only art form that depends entirely on time. A painting or sculpture stands still, but a piece of music only exists as it unfolds. Its shape depends on our ability to remember what came before and to connect it with…

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The Age of Enlightenment

What does the Enlightenment sound like? The Enlightenment — or Age of Reason — was a period in the 17th and 18th centuries marked by a profound shift in how people understood the world. Thinkers like Voltaire, Kant, and Hume challenged tradition and authority, promoting reason, science, education, and individual…

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Spotlight Haydn: the “Paris” and “London” symphonies

Karajan recorded the two complete sets of the “Paris” and the “London” symphonies in the early 1980s...

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Spotlight Haydn: “The Creation”

Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” was one of his major works and one of his last masterpieces...

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