Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Gerald F Pillay ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > >>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. My old copy of the Guiness Book of Records lists the Serenade as the String Quartet Op 3 No 5 in F and confirms that Hofstetter may have written the Op 3 set. Thumbing further through the book I found that Haydn in 1794 wrote an opera called Windsor Castle. May be the Serenade was part of that. Incidentally I live about 5 miles from Windsor Castle so this thread is of more than passing interest. Tim Horwood