Michael Parloff returns to Music@Menlo to lead the season’s first Encounter, a survey of Joseph Haydn’s biography and creative journey. Tracing Haydn’s beginnings through his unique professional circumstances, his relationships with contemporaries, his artistic triumphs, and finally his posthumous legacy, this deep dive into Haydn’s life and times provides an essential framework for the 2020 festival’s examination of this seminal composer of the Classical era.