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.

Two years ago, Haydn's bicentenary caused many to take him a lot more seriously. The New Zealand String Quartet swept us through 20 quartet movements from Opus 1 to 103, revealing just why Haydn is ...

"Around string players, it's a misty goal, like climbing Mount Everest. Everybody aspires to it." Violinist and violist Anthony Martin is talking about performing all 68 of Joseph Haydn's completed ...

Premieres October 1 at 12 p.m. on pbs.org/gperf and the PBS App   Composed of violinists Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou, violist Aiden Kane, and cellist Tate ...

The New Zealand String Quartet celebrates the life and music of composer Joseph Haydn on its annual tour to six centres in August and September. The concert series features two different programmes of ...

In its recitals at Wigmore Hall the Doric String Quartet has shown an affinity for Haydn. The set of six quartets, Op.20, written when the composer was 40, catch him in the white heat of experiment, ...

The St. Lawrence String Quartet is on a mission to promote the composer who made the string quartet the cornerstone of chamber music. It was the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, back in the 1700s, who ...

What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.

In his Op.76 string quartets Haydn shows us six faces, if not more. Each one of the half-dozen quartets ventures daringly in character. We see Haydn the courtly and the rustic, the warm-hearted and ...