Talk:Symphony No. 88 (Haydn)

Nickname
If you look on google you will see a fair few mentions of this being nicknamed the "letter V" but I can't find out WHY.. I will add the nickname to the text in brackets for now, if anyone thinks it is inappropriate they can remove it and if anyone knows why and when it recieved the nickname it would nice if they added it! --86.130.150.62 03:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure of the origins, but an older way of cataloguing Haydn's Symponies used letters instead of numbers. The following ones I've been able to find:

Letter A - #71 (not to be confused with the current symphony 'A')

Letter B - #45 (not to be confused with the current symphony 'B')

Letter E - #44

Letter L - #47

Letter Q - #92

Letter R - #90

Letter T - #91

Letter V - #88

Letter W - #89

I would imagine there might be more as there are gaps in the sequence of letters. I'll add a note to the discussion of the main haydn symphony list as that page might get more traffic and maybe someone knows the full story.

--The more I think about it, the more I think the letters were not really 'nicknames' per se, but just an alternate way of labelling them (letters instead of numbers). 172.191.123.138 00:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I once heard Robbins Landon asked about this on the radio, and he said he had investigated and discovered about the cataloguing by letters. Seadowns (talk) 10:24, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Brahms Quote on Second Movement
Its an oft-repeated quote, but all the references I find qualify the quote by saying "the story goes that", or "legend has it that". How do I cite that? Since its such a complimentary quote, people don't seem to mind repeating it in this manner. (Steinberg's symphony guide is one reference that perpetuates the legend.) Is there a longer story behind the verifiability of this quote? DavidRF 14:53, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Will have to look further (will check a Brahms bio or two). One article that makes the claim is here though. Schissel | Sound the Note! 15:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Great. I don't necessarily doubt that its true, but since I was one that originally added the quote to the article, I felt it was my responsibility to add a citation.  None of my books provided a strong enough statement for a 'cite' so I just posted a blurb here.  Thanks for checking.  DavidRF 23:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Trivia
This trivia section contains only one item: a version performed on electric guitar by Paul Gilbert. I am too inexperienced to just want to delete this section myself, but I think this entire trivia section ought to be deleted. There have been many recordings of this sympohony by famous and respected conductors and orchestras, but none are listed and including this one adaptation seems like an advertisement to me. I know that trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guileines yet that one should not simply remove them thoughtlessly. I hope a more experienced editor will do the right thing. David Couch (talk) 22:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)