Gerald F Pillay ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>Grateful for some help. My old friend recently wrote me thus:
>
> By the way, there is one piece of music I have been hunting high and
> low for. It is Haydn's "Strings for Sextet", more popularly known
> as "Serenade from Windsor". ...
I find it odd that a work nobody seems ever to have heard of (incl. moi)
can be "popularly known" as anything at all.
>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.
Which IIRC is not by Haydn at all but by Roman Hofstetter.
Deryk Barker
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