Haydn’s three Symphonies nos. 90╩92 might rightly be dubbed his ''Paris Symphonies Part II'', as they were commissioned in 1788/89, likewise by the Société Olympique, for which Haydn had already composed his six ''Paris Symphonies'' nos. 82╩87 just a few years earlier. Ironically enough, Haydn would later sell these three a second time to Prince von Oettingen-Wallerstein who requested he ''receive 3 new symphonies from him''. Regardless of such mercantile entanglements, Haydn shows himself to be