Karl Miller wrote: >I am reminded of a one of my graduate seminars where one of my fellow >students did a comparison of the Mozart Requiem and the Michael Haydn >Requiem...the similarities were...even if Mozart's writing was clearly >better (an understatement), his sense of structure was so similar to >Michael Haydn's Requiem that I found it unlikely Mozart did not pattern >his work on it. Actually, it is pretty much accepted by Mozart scholars that he did something like that -- let himself be very influenced by M. Haydn's requiem. Whether he modelled his own work in that Haydn _consciously_ is of course impossible to tell with full certainty. -MM