This piece--the adagio from Haydn's 44th Symphony--has been haunting me for a whole week. Last Wednesday I found myself randomly (and I mean RANDOMLY) humming the main theme...I knew I wasn't making it up, but I couldn't figure out who wrote it or what it was from! It bothered me the rest of the day, especially when I wasn't sure if I was singing it right. Then, the next day, I had forgotten the theme, and decided to just forget about it all together. And then, later, I was trying to come up with a counter-melody for Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, when I suddenly remembered this theme (which fits in quite well with part of the Moonlight Sonata)! I couldn't decide if the composer was Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, or even Grieg..... But today I finally remembered. :) By chance, I've heard this exact movement twice (on different days) on our classical radio station; though I really liked it, I didn't think it had made that big of an impression on me.
Anyway, this post is probably interesting to no one but myself, but I'm sure glad that mystery is cleared up. ;)
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