Before he died at 77, Franz Joseph Haydn composed more than 500 works, including at least 104 symphonies. Last week the Haydn Society, which has been busying itself preparing a catalogue of Haydn compositions and recording many of them, reported some tentative findings: some 50 works generally attributed to Haydn are not his at all—and further, many a Haydn score has been tampered with by "improving" editors.
After two years of Haydn-go-seek, H. C. Robbins Landon, one of the society's founders, writes in the Saturday Review of Literature: "It is (unfortunately) more profitable today...
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