Joseph Sowa wrote: >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. You may be right. Actually, I'm more familiar w/ the string quartet version of the Seven last Words, which also end w/ a musical depiction of the earthquake following Jesus' death. It's grand Haydn, of course, but I prefer the slow movements that precede it. If Haydn's earthquake trumps Mozart's failure ever to have written a musical description of one, they're both trumped by Honegger and Villa-Lobos, each of whom described very convincingly in musical form the sound of a steam locomotive. Walter Meyer