| Naxos | The four works on this CD no longer form part of the accepted canon of Haydn’s string quartets. The two works from Op. 2 are spurious arrangements of authentic Haydn works and the Op. 3 quartets are now widely believed to be the work of Pater Romanus Hoffstetter. That all four works circulated as genuine string quartets by Haydn for nearly two centuries is one of many proofs of his phenomenal contemporary popularity as a composer of chamber music. Haydn’s earliest compositions for string quartet rank among the most historically significant instrumental works of all time. With these works, composed to the best of our knowledge in the late 1750s, he created an entirely new genre and one which would occupy a central place in the musical thinking of composers through to the present day. According to Haydn’s own account, as related by his early biographer Griesinger, a "…purely coincidental circumstance led him to try his hand at the composition of quartets. |
| Disc No: 8.555703 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Haydn - String Quartets | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Converse, Frederick | The Mystic Trumpeter | Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - JoAnn Falletta | ||
| Converse, Frederick | Endymion’s Narrative | |||
| Converse, Frederick | Flivver Ten Million |