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.

More to the point, last time I looked, one A Hovhaness was bearing down
on Haydn with his usual fecundity into at least the late 50s of his
symphonies.  Does anyone have some more up-to-date knowledge?

Richard Pennycuick
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