Mark Seeley wrote:

>In the end, in one of the great achievements in the history of music, Haydn
>fused the elegant and the expressive, the orderly and the capricious, the
>formal and the dramatic.

This is very eloquently stated, and, reading it, it sums up more generally
what Western classical music does at its best: it expresses at the same
time both order and emotion.

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University