We remember him as “Papa Haydn,” father of the symphony and mentor to Mozart and Beethoven, and the composer of happy music. But as a composer, his impact on music of his time and subsequent ages is so much more.
“He is a genius of the highest order for me,” said Bernard Labadie, a leading conductor of 18th-century music and now the new principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL).
