Clarion Concert: Sublime at The Stissing Center – The Millbrook Independent

Clarion Concert: Sublime at The Stissing Center – The Millbrook Independent

Last Sunday, the New York Philharmonic, in the Clarion Concert series, delivered a memorable performance at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains. They opened with String Quartet in G major, Op. No. 1 HobIII:81 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Haydn had invented the quartet format; by 1799 it had blossomed beyond Vienna and became the most popular musical format. That year Haydn composed his last quartet, a series of three, of which only the firs…