There's a standard joke among quartet players that Haydn builds string quartets and Mozart destroys them. New quartets begin playing Haydn because it all fits

There's a standard joke among quartet players that Haydn builds string quartets and Mozart destroys them. New quartets begin playing Haydn because it all fits together so solidly that it guides the quartet into gelling. Mozart quartets regularly just don't have that scaffolding and the quartet had better have their quasi-telepathic communication down first.