Len Fehskens wrote:
>Why is it that Haydn gets "dissed" this way so regularly? The Paris and
>London Symphonies? The string quartets?
De gustibus ...
It is perhaps enough to know that Mozart appreciated Haydn's work and
friendship, and the two invigorated and informed each other.
Haydn presents us with a different surface and intellect. There are going
to be people who are not enamoured of what he does, or how he does it, and
it is probably best to simply nod quietly when someone says "Compared to
Mozart, Haydn was TOAST!" and then go off and listen to some certain string
quartets.
Stirling S Newberry
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