JOSEPH HAYDN WERKE DRAWS TO ITS CLOSE

In the event, no comprehensive chronology of the symphonies will ever be feasible, as on the one hand there are indeed some datable works (especially those which have come down to us in autograph score), but on the other hand there are many which can only be loosely assigned to a period of one to three years. [...]in Joseph Haydn Werke the datable and only vaguely datable works are presented in parallel volumes which overlap chronologically (for example, I/2 presents symphonies from about 1761 to 1765, while I/3 presents symphonies known to date precisely from the years 1761 to 1763). After the completion of the edition two further units will be added: a new edition of Haydn's correspondence (the one by Dénes Bartha, Joseph Haydn: Gesammelte Briefe und Aufzeichnungen (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1965), is incomplete and not up to contemporary philological standards) and a thematic catalogue - not to replace Hoboken's indispensable work entirely, but to correct his many mistakes, especially with regard to problems of authenticity.