Mark Seeley ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >For my curiousity and idle speculation, I would say Mozart. Haydn and >Mozart were comtemporaries and fed off each other's creativity and genius. >However, Haydn, in my opinion, surpassed Mozart in his London symphonies, >but this is also due in part to having outlived Mozart. So, it is >interesting speculation to think and consider how Mozart might have >surpassed Haydn if he had lived to his life expectancy. I think they were very different composers. Haydn was IMHO a far greater symphonist - I could live without all the Mozart symphonies except the last 4 - and maybe No.34. Mozart OTOH was a great opera and concerto composer, which Haydn wasn't. Although I won't go along with Glenn Gould who though Mozart died too late rather than too soon, the composer I'd most like to have lived longer was Schubert. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]