The six string quartets in his opus twenty, Sun Quartets, helped earn him the nickname "the father of the String Quartet."
One of this composer's oratorios follows the farmer Simon, who watches his daughter Hanne over the course of a year. This composer wrote twelve symphonies for Johann Peter Salomon. The six string quartets in his opus twenty, Sun Quartets, helped earn him the nickname "the father of the String Quartet." His ninety-fourth symphony takes its name from a (*) sudden fortissimo note on the timpani in the middle of the soft second movement, which was allegedly included to wake up sleeping members of the audience. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the Surprise Symphony.
One of this composer's oratorios follows the farmer Simon, who watches his daughter Hanne over the course of a year.
Franz Joseph Haydn