Ulvi Yertsever quoted my nonsense from an earlier post:

>>If the number of symphonies a composer wrote is a prime consideration, then
>>Haydn is right on the money.  There is always an excellent chance, given
>>the frighteningly rapid dissemination of information these days, that news
>>will shortly break about a find by some obscure musicologist in an even
>>more obscure castle in the depths of Moravia of the two hundred symphonies...

and with, apparently, some annoyance, wrote:

>Hopefully this was not intended to denigrate the symphonies of Haydn, most
>of which, despite their number, are masterpieces in the (classical) form.

Sorry if it gave that impression - I have the highest regard for them.
Several are on my reissue want list, including David Blum's magical Bach
Guild version of #60.

Richard Pennycuick
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