Haydn as an Opera Composer

Extract

It is a regrettable fact that the opportunities for hearing, or even for studying, the works of Joseph Haydn, still leave much to be desired, and that, in spite of the composer's popularity, to-day not more than a tenth of his music is ever played, and hardly one-third is accessible in print. The remainder is scattered through the world's libraries in manuscript, or in old, exhausted editions.