Tag: Joseph Haydn

Written by Garrett Lyne Rowland

Celebrating Joseph Haydn~

Today marks the 290th birthday of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), a very creative and innovative composer, and one of the giants in music history. Being so, it is a great opportunity to take a remember his life and discuss his works. I’ll leave a short biography below and discuss some of my favorite works of his. […]

Written by Garrett Lyne Rowland

Joseph Haydn’s Keyboard Sonatas

Joseph Haydn wrote around 50 keyboard sonatas (authorship disputes make the true number uncertain). Within them is a large variety of music, spanning from simple divertimenti he wrote in the 1750s and 1760s, to Haydn’s great “London Sonatas” of the 1790s. The difficulty range of these sonatas is wide, with some being suitable for beginners, […]