Len Fehskens <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Robert W. Shaw writes, re Mozart vs. Haydn:
>
>>Listen to Syms 40 & 41 and what was to come would have been spectacular.
>>Frankly, Haydn never wrote music that sublime. Cute, funny, and well
>>orchestrated and written, but not that sublime...
>
>Why is it that Haydn gets "dissed" this way so regularly? The Paris and
>London Symphonies? The string quartets?
Plus many of the symphonies from the mid 1760s on wards have supremely
beautiful slow movements; listen to No 44, as one example that springs
immediately to mind, but there are many, many others. Regards
Leroy Curtis mailto:[log in to unmask]