Bob Draper wrote: >Just because a segement of the music fraternity have been indoctrinated >with the populist idea that WAM is the greatest composer of all time it >doesn't mean we all agree. > >[deleted eulogy about Haydn] Very well said. There's a certain kind of pleasure that you can get from Haydn's music that you don't see in Mozart. In addition, I very much agree with Glenn Gould. ("Mozart's ok when he sounds like Haydn") BTW, at my Uncle's house I heard a pretty interesting work of Haydn's of which I never knew. It was an oratorio called, IIRC, The Seven Last Words of Christ. In the last movement, Haydn depicts the earthquake after Christ's death in musical terms--very accurate musical terms, which I've never heard in Mozart. Joseph Sowa [log in to unmask]