【NSO Online 經典禮讚─海頓：第六十號交響曲】Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 60 in C major - NSO ,Taiwan - Jun Märkl 

Not sure the music is either ‘noble’ or ‘elegant’. Haydn put together this six-movement symphony from the incidental music he wrote to accompany a stage farce performed at Eszterhaza - a German translation of a French play ‘Le distrait’ - which was about a forgetful man. Haydn afterwards re-cycled the music as a symphony which was given an Italian title *Il distratto,* and it makes a fantastic half-hour’s entertainment. When later the Empress asked to hear the symphony again, Haydn dismissed work as ‘…that old nonsense’.