The program the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is performing this weekend opens, deceptively, with a blast of quintessential feel-good music: Three Romances for orchestra by Clara Schumann. This is lush ...

Joseph Haydn penned his Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major between 1761 and 1765, but it would be 200 years before anyone heard it. That’s because the piece somehow got placed in the Prague National ...

Mozart wrote many concertos, Haydn a mere handful. The reasons are fairly obvious - Haydn was not a virtuoso himself, and his secure gig with the Eszterhazy family meant that he didn't have to compete ...

A musical masterpiece that went missing for 200 years will highlight this weekend’s concerts by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. The musical score for “Cello Concerto in C Major,” written in the ...

An organ concerto is an odd duck. It doesn't fit into a church service, and most 18th-century theaters didn't have organs. But Haydn probably wrote his Organ Concerto in C to honor an old girlfriend ...

This story concerns a distinguished, Salzburg orchestra founded in the name of Mozart; a Haydn concerto discovered two centuries after its composition; and the long-awaited debut of an original work ...