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
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