What's wrong with a great composer

[MrGongGong]

Wasn't this thread about Haydn at the Proms?

indeed
such an unknown composer
deserves to have more exposure don't you think ?

[aeolium]

deserves to have more exposure don't you think ?

Yes, than he is getting this year or got last year

[MrGongGong]

Yes, than he is getting this year or got last year

There's nothing wrong with Haydn
but to suggest that somehow there is a "vendetta" against playing his music
is ridiculous ............

[Hornspieler]

I absolutely agree with you - and I too think Haydn is a very under-rated composer. And I will happily go on playing his wonderful quartets until the end of time. (And some of them are damned hard technically too!)

Best wishes - Ariosto

Thanks for that, Ari.

I have a very fine recording taken off-air of my wife's quartet playing Op. 76 Nº 2 in D minor.

Damned hard is putting it mildly. That 1st violin part is a killer - and the others also have it tough in places.

With Haydn, there is no place to hide. (Play Haydnseek?)

HS

[Boilk]

It's no coincidence that the nicknamed symphonies tend to be more popular, but it unfairly eclipses the the 'merely' numbered ones.

Would be interesting to see some performance stats of nicknamed-versus-numbered for this genre over the last three centuries. The same goes for sonatas.