Gerald F. Pillay queried: >Grateful for some help. My old friend recently wrote me thus: > >"...It is Haydn's "Strings for Sextet", more popularly >known as "Serenade from Windsor"...." Does your friend mean "Sextet for Strings" perhaps? >The nearest I have got is the String Quartet Op 3 No2, the second movement >of which has the famous petite Serenade one finds in the piano books. Leafing through Haydn't work list in the New Groves (2nd ed.), I found very little attributed the composer for string sextet, and even then the works were either listed as spurious or doubtful. I couldn't find the title "Serenade for Windsor" either. (Granted, I was looking for complete works, not movements.) There is one spurious work called the "Echo" divertimento (H. II/39) which is for two string trios. Could this be it? And what of the possiblity the sextet your friend knows is an arrangement? Mark K. Ehlert