Haydn’s symphonies–104 in all, produced over a four-decade span–chart the growth of a facile compositional mind as well as a genre that would become the foundation of the classical canon. Even the ...

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Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote over 100 symphonies, and almost as many string quartets, more than 50 keyboard sonatas, 14 masses, and 32 ‘pieces for mechanical clock’! Here are his 10 best.