Symphony No. 43 (Haydn)

[1] The source of the "Mercury" nickname remains unknown according to Matthew Rye.

It could refer to its use as incidental music from some play or other given at Eszterháza, or it may not have appeared until the nineteenth century.

The slow movement is scored for muted violins with sparing use of woodwind.

Robbins Landon describes the movement as having "a strong sense of nostalgia".

There follows one of Haydn's magnificent silences, and then the music plunges into a last tutti and this elegant chamber symphony is at an end".