On the CCth Anniversary of the Death of Joseph Haydn

Damian Thompson says the composer "wrote more works of sublime craftsmanship than any composer except J. S. Bach" and "only Bach, Mozart and Beethoven surpassed his inspiration, which [he] would put on a par with Schubert's," but whose "art conceals itself in a way that no other great composer's does" — Haydn: a composer for grown-ups.

A re-posting of the composer's "Mass for Troubled Times" seems à propos for both the day and the times: