If the number of symphonies a composer wrote is a prime consideration, then Haydn is right on the money. There is always an excellent chance, given the frighteningly rapid dissemination of information these days, that news will shortly break about a find by some obscure musicologist in an even more obscure castle in the depths of Moravia of the two hundred symphonies, all of them in C, by an itinerant hurdy-gurdy tuner whose name is lost in the mists of time, followed by a quick assessment by HC Robbins Landon. More to the point, last time I looked, one A Hovhaness was bearing down on Haydn with his usual fecundity into at least the late 50s of his symphonies. Does anyone have some more up-to-date knowledge? Richard Pennycuick [log in to unmask]