David Snead, who for nearly a decade has served as president and chief executive of the Handel and Haydn Society, announced ...

Shortly after Haydn’s body was buried it was dug up. His head was cut off and removed by amateur phrenologists who then reburied the body. The theft went unrecognised for some years and it took ...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...

Haydn’s father was a wheelwright and the village sexton. Joseph was the second of his 12 children. His brother Michael, born five years later, also became a composer. Where did the music come from?

A new album by artists including Kate Bush and Imogen Heap protesting proposed changes to AI copyright laws is the latest in a history of... A 'silent' protest? Haydn and a bunch of chorus girls ...