The discovery of six keyboard sonatas composed by Franz Joseph Haydn in the late 1760s or early 1770s has been announced in London by H.C. Robbins Landon, a musicologist and Haydn scholar.
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The works, which are to be performed at Harvard University in February and published in April, are likely to shed considerable light on Haydn's middle period, a time from which comparatively few authenticated keyboard works exist.Haydn's own catalog also lists a seventh lost work, which is now believed to be the only missing Haydn keyboard sonata composed after 1765. The six recently discovered sonata manuscripts are not in Haydn's hand, but are copies believed to have been made in Italy in about 1805.