Ulvi Yurtsever wrote: >FWIW, my opinion still is that overall Haydn is a greater composer than >Mozart, even though Mozart's "peaks" often exceed those of Haydn. It's a straw man! We all love Haydn. Well, almost all of us. Most of us acknowledge that, in his best works, he's unsurpassed. Nevertheless, whenever somebody suggests in a post that Haydn, like Homer, may occasionally nod, or (gasp) that they view Haydn w/ almost the same skepticism that I've frequently seen applied to Mozart on these lists, there seems to be an outcry that "everybody" is dissing him. Altogether now: "Papa Haydn wrote this tune And a chord is coming soon; It will be a big surprise. Open sleepy eyes. BANG!" Walter Meyer