Stirling Newberry wrote:

>Perhaps Haydn could seem naive to the 19th century - Hoffman, Schumann and
>Wagner all commented as much.  But this scarcely seems credible.  Instead,
>with Talleyrand-like calculation he carefully laiden what seemed a throw
>away moment with introduction of important characters that would carry the
>music and appear over and over again.  Instead Haydn is perhaps the 18th
>century equivelant of the good old boy country lawyer from North Carolina
>who was also phi beta kappa at harvard law.

Amen to that.  I've always found Haydn to be one of the most intellectual
of composers--as you go through his symphonies or quartets you can almost
hear the wheels turning, analyzing the possibilities, trying out new ideas
every time.  And, of course, the music's wonderful.

Peter Goldstein