Huff, han karen der hadde i si tid eit eige program om filmmusikk på NRK Klassisk, der han introduserte meg for Max Richter. Det har eg framleis ikkje tilgjeve han.

I even own that book. Much obliged!

I'm very happy that you are keeping the Wanhal flag flying in my absence! The names list, by the way, is not exhaustive: in his own birth record he is (so far as I understand) listed as Jan Ignacy Manhal.

Yeah. This guy. A huge fan. These were the very VERY first recordings on Naxos I ever purchased. 20 years ago?!? Long gone but now I have these. Am a huge fan of the Ovid. (Also the orchestra Tafelmusik. A wonderful composer!

I suppose that the leaders of each group, Balakirev and Tigress, would have to go together.

Coming from an eighteenth-century perspective, this is so weird to hear about. There we have thousands of such documents, and neither the resources, the manpower of the intellectual prestige to see it done.

This one is truly wonderful. My thanks for giving me a reason to revisit it.

You are very welcome, and thank you for listening!

It is hard to say. He was definitely capable of deliberately repurposing material, but the letter does sound more than a little defensive, so I am not 100% sure that is the case here. Then again, I don't really know much about the creation history of these sonatas (I'm not sure if anybody does).

More interesting are the cases where he draws attention to and deliberately plays with this: symphony 85 quotes 45 in the second theme, but lets the first theme change step by step into this. This is possibly a response to Parisian accusations of #45 being monotonous.

At other points, Haydn was definitely guilty of this. Just compare the openings of the Salve Regina in E and the third word from the Seven Last Words (both Marian works in E, but 30 years apart):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ8f...
youtu.be/3OBa431xI2E?...

There is one letter from Haydn to his publisher Artaria about a similarity between two themes in a set of piano sonatas. I don't have the source handy, but I have included a screenshot of an article I wish I hadn't written, which quotes it almost in full.