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The "Surprise" Symphony. Haydn was by all reports a playful man. He inserted an extraordinarily loud and sudden chord close to the beginning of the second movement. Haydn's idea was to "surprise them", that is, those who would have had supposedly "dozed off" during the playing of his symphony.

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