Indeed. I've always thought that some of the stuff is meant to be humorous -- little girls blowing French horns and so on.
> There were layers and layers and layers of stuff in there I had
> no idea existed in Haydn's music.
No accounting for this stuff, is there? I always thought Haydn was wonderful, and there are many days when I find his stuff more congenial than all but the commanding heights of Mozart. But I still await the epiphany wrt Il Prete Rosso's concerti grossi. Ugh.