Hoffstetter, Roman 04/24/1742 - 05/21/1815

Roman Hoffstetter was born in Laudenbach, near Bad Mergentheim, Germany and died, in Miltenberg-am-Main, Germany. He was a classical composer and Benedictine monk
In 1965, the musicologist Alan Tyson (with H.C. Robbins Landon) published the finding that the entire set of six String Quartets long-admired as Haydn's Op. 3, including the Andante cantabile of No. 5 in F Major known as Haydn's Serenade, were actually by Roman Hoffstetter. Further discoveries have more strongly established Hoffstetter's authorship of at least the first two of the six quartets.