Variations & Pieces for Piano

The quintessence {of his greatness} seems to me to be in the exceptionally light handling of the rhythm, an art in which no one else is his equal, and to lie in what the English refer to as humor, a word which does not really have an exact German equivalent. This latter characteristic explains his propensity for comic twists and the greater achievement of explaining away such features as serious (Albert Christoph Dies: "Biographische Nachrichten von Joseph Haydn") The release of Haydns Comp