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Composer of the Week Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Episodes

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  1. A Wider World

    5/5 Donald Macleod discusses Haydn's receiving commissions from Naples, Paris and London.

  2. A New and Special Way

    4/5 Donald Macleod on how Haydn bowed out of opera, returning to composing string quartets.

  3. Operatic Overload

    3/5 Focusing on Haydn's taking a mistress and the destruction of the Eszterhaza opera house.

  4. Eszterhaza Fairyland

    2/5 Focusing on groundbreaking string quartets and Haydn's bidding his prince farewell.

  5. Grand Designs

    1/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Prince Nicolaus Eszterhazy's expansion of his palace.