Gerald F Pillay ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Grateful for some help. My old friend recently wrote me thus:
>
>   By the way, there is one piece of music I have been hunting high and
>   low for.  It is Haydn's "Strings for Sextet", more popularly known
>   as "Serenade from Windsor". ...

I find it odd that a work nobody seems ever to have heard of (incl.  moi)
can be "popularly known" as anything at all.

>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.

Which IIRC is not by Haydn at all but by Roman Hofstetter.

Deryk Barker
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