Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Presented by Liszt Academy

Michael Haydn, Joseph Haydn’s younger brother by five years, served for over four decades in Mozart’s birthplace, Salzburg. He composed in virtually all the genres of the period and was considered particularly outstanding for his church music. His brother also enthused over Michael’s music written for the church, while in the early 19th century E.T.A. Hoffmann held him in particularly high regard: “All connoisseurs of music know, and have known for some time, that as a composer of sacred music, Michael Haydn ranks amongst the finest of any age or nation.” The concert features one of the most virtuoso trumpet concertos of the period, a Joseph Haydn symphony and oratorio, as well as two works by his younger brother, written for the liturgy of the Massacre of the Innocents, commemorating those children murdered following the birth of Christ.