Article: Weekend - Books: Haydn details worth stocking up on; Haydn. Edited by David Wyn Jones (Oxford Composer Companions, pounds 50). Reviewed by Christopher Morley.(Features)

Byline: Christopher Morley

In 1804 William Gardiner, a Leicester hosiery manufacturer and amateur musician, was so taken with the music by Haydn that he had recently performed that he sent him a token of his admiration: six pairs of stockings decorated with melodies by the composer.

This delightful anecdote is one of many gleaned from Haydn, the latest in the Oxford Composer Companions series offered under the editorship of ...

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