Richard Pennycuick:

>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,
>all of them in C, by an itinerant hurdy-gurdy tuner whose name is lost in
>the mists of time, followed by a quick assessment by HC Robbins Landon.

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

Ulvi
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