Richard Pennycuick: >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. Hopefully this was not intended to denigrate the symphonies of Haydn, most of which, despite their number, are masterpieces in the (classical) form. Ulvi [log in to unmask]