Posts Tagged ‘Baryton Trios’

Art—so the proverb goes—flourishes on limitations. While most of Franz Joseph Haydn’s musical contemporaries, notably Mozart and Beethoven, flocked to Europe’s 18th-century cultural capital Vienna to expand their musical horizons, poor Haydn worked and composed for the princely Esterházy family on their remote rural estates. Tuesday’s (August 19) SummerFest concert offered a collage of Haydn…