Assessment
The dominance of the piano part does not imply that the late trios are not of the highest quality. Rosen devotes an entire chapter of his well-known book The Classical Style to them, noting that Haydn's trios are "along with the Mozart concertos the most brilliant piano works before Beethoven." Gretchen Wheelock refers to the trios as "incredible", adding "the late works especially are brilliantly virtuosic, exploiting the full idiomatic range of the instrument . They are also among the most harmonically adventurous of his works in any genre, often reaching into remote keys via enharmonic modulations. As such they are challenging essays for both players and listeners."
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