Symphony No. 73 (Haydn)

[3] This movement displays one of Haydn's favorite musical devices, turning accompaniment into melody.

Once the repeated-note theme is established, then any time repeated notes are used in accompaniment, it sounds to the listener like thematic counterpoint.

[5] The final movement was originally composed as the overture to Haydn's opera La fedeltà premiata (“Fidelity Rewarded”), a detail which has helped secure the dating of the symphony.

[6] The hunting melody of the finale is a quotation from La Chasse du cerf,[7] a Divertissement for solo voices, chorus, and instrumental ensemble by the eighteenth century French composer Jean-Baptiste Morin.

Morin himself drew upon the popular Sourcillade (or Vue) penned by André Danican Philidor in the first decade of the 18th century.