Joseph Haydn is regarded as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet" for his more than 100 symphonies and almost 70 string quartets. Haydn also produced numerous operas, masses, concertos, piano sonatas and other compositions.

His oratorios The Creation and The Seasons, both composed in the last decade of Haydn’s active compositional life, are his most widely known and admired choral compositions today, just as they were in his lifetime

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Recordings: Stadthalle Sindelfingen, Großer Saal, 27.–30. September 1993 (CD 1-2); Stadthalle Oberhausen, Januar 1992 (CD 3-4); Kaiserdom Speyer, 28./29. Mai 1991 (CD 5, Tr. 1-10); Stuttgart/Heilbronn, 1981 (CD 5, 11-15); Stadthalle Oberhausen, 1992 (DVD)