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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 to issue a symphony on records under Haydn's name than under the correct title of [say] Johann Rasper Ferdinand Gluggl, and it was just as profitable for an 18th Century publisher to follow this same course...
...Other Haydn Society conclusions which "will come as a considerable surprise to the music world...
...Haydn's Toy Symphony is the work of J. G. Leopold Mozart (Wolfgang's father...
...Brahms's famous Variations on a Theme by Haydn should perhaps be retitled to credit Haydn Student Ignaz Joseph Pleyel. Student Pleyel may have written the theme which Brahms used for his variations; it wasn't Haydn...
...drum-roll effect in Haydn's Symphony No. 103 ("The Drum Roll") was not Haydn's idea, but the work of a later innovator, identity unknown...