Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>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,...

Already known.  I think it might be Georg Monn who wrote 176 symphonies.

>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?

He has an awfully long way to go. They need to be *good* to qualify.

Deryk Barker
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