MUSIC BY SCHUBERT, HAYDN & BRUCKNER

Cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions.

This concert was due to take place on June 7th, 2020 at St Andrew's Church, Westland Row, Dublin but was postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions. We hope to be able to bring this beautiful programme of music to you at a later date.

The programme includes works by Austrian composers Haydn, Schubert and Bruckner.

Please check back soon for more information.

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Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical era and was instrumental in the development of chamber music. At the age of six, he went to live and train with a relative who was a choirmaster and at the age of eight became a chorister in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna. After nine years there with very little in the way of formal music education, he subsequently taught himself music theory and composition. Read more…

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. One of fourteen children, Schubert wrote his earliest string quartets for a family ensemble comprising himself, two brothers and their father. In 1804, he came to the attention of Antonio Salieri, then Vienna's leading musical authority, and obtained a choir scholarship to the Imperial Seminary, where he became an admirer of the works of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Salieri later trained him privately in music theory and composition. Read more…