32. This famous passage and the history of commentary on it are exhaustively studied in James Webster, “The D-Major Interlude in the First Movement of Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony,” in Studies in Musical Sources and Styles: Essays in Honor of Jan LaRue, ed. Eugene K. Wolf and Edward H. Roesner (Madison: A-R Editions, Inc., 1990), 339–380. See also Webster’s Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony, esp. 39–45, in a section aptly titled “The D-major interlude and the irony of melody.”