Tag: Opp 64 & 71

• The death of a prince

  June 10, 2013

  Chamber music, String Quartet

  Haydn, Opp 64 & 71, string quartet, The Lark

  … he is remembered as the principal employer of … Joseph Haydn. (Ironic, isn’t it, that a scion of one of the greatest of Austro-Hungarian noble families, Prince Nikolaus ‘The Magnificent’ should be best remembered for having been the employer of the son of a wheelwright and a cook!) Nikolaus I, Prince Eszterházy died on the…