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On a brief note, this composition was generally accepted as a work of Haydn until 1965. According to Wikipedia:

"In 1965, musicologists Alan Tyson and H.C. Robbins Landon published a 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 composed by Roman Hoffstetter."

Roman Hoffstetter was an admirer of Haydn and a quiet monk whose work remained unknown during his lifetime. Perhaps the musical world's century-long assumption that these manuscripts were previously lost early Haydn works was, for Hoffstetter, the highest honor - to have his compositions mistaken for those of his musical hero.