Tag: Franz Joseph Haydn

  • PROGRAM NOTES: DORIC STRING QUARTET

    PROGRAM NOTES: DORIC STRING QUARTET

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    FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2 Those of us wondering in our spare moments what a happy retirement consists of might do well to consider the case of one Franz Joseph Haydn, whose life in the years 1796-97, when his collection of six string quartets Op. 76 was written,…