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Ulvi Yurtsever wrote:
>FWIW, my opinion still is that overall Haydn is a greater composer than
>Mozart, even though Mozart's "peaks" often exceed those of Haydn.
It's a straw man! We all love Haydn. Well, almost all of us. Most of
us acknowledge that, in his best works, he's unsurpassed. Nevertheless,
whenever somebody suggests in a post that Haydn, like Homer, may
occasionally nod, or (gasp) that they view Haydn w/ almost the same
skepticism that I've frequently seen applied to Mozart on these lists,
there seems to be an outcry that "everybody" is dissing him.
Altogether now:
"Papa Haydn wrote this tune
And a chord is coming soon;
It will be a big surprise.
Open sleepy eyes. BANG!"
Walter Meyer
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