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Gerald F. Pillay queried:
>Grateful for some help. My old friend recently wrote me thus:
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>"...It is Haydn's "Strings for Sextet", more popularly
>known as "Serenade from Windsor"...."
Does your friend mean "Sextet for Strings" perhaps?
>The nearest I have got is the String Quartet Op 3 No2, the second movement
>of which has the famous petite Serenade one finds in the piano books.
Leafing through Haydn't work list in the New Groves (2nd ed.), I found
very little attributed the composer for string sextet, and even then the
works were either listed as spurious or doubtful. I couldn't find the
title "Serenade for Windsor" either. (Granted, I was looking for
complete works, not movements.)
There is one spurious work called the "Echo" divertimento (H. II/39) which
is for two string trios. Could this be it? And what of the possiblity the
sextet your friend knows is an arrangement?
Mark K. Ehlert
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