Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>Bob Draper replying to Walter Meyer:
>
>>When you say "the serenade" I'm not sure which work you mean.
>
>Probably a movement from a set of string quartets once thought to be by
>Haydn and now known to have been written by Hofstetter.  This was once
>called Haydn's Serenade.  I always used to confuse it with Boccherini's
>minuet until I saw that wonderful comedy, The Ladykillers, in which the
>Boccherini played a prominent role.

It used to be called Quartet in F, op.  3 # 5, second movement...  but
since everyone but the first fiddle was doing pizzicato, we just called
it the "plink plink."

Mimi Ezust <[log in to unmask]>