Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . ousehold rolled along quiet but come a good reader and singer at sight, abusy; it was in the midst of one of those good violinist, and acquainted with the prin-little towns where the only events are mar- ciples of the harpsichord. Frankh had evenriages, baptisms, and burials. The father added some literary instruction to the neces-multiplied his functions in the shop, the sary professional teaching, notably the ele- 88 JOSEPH HAYDN ments of Latin, which were, however, indis-pensable to a future organist or kapellmeisterwho is to be a commentator up
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . ousehold rolled along quiet but come a good reader and singer at sight, abusy; it was in the midst of one of those good violinist, and acquainted with the prin-little towns where the only events are mar- ciples of the harpsichord. Frankh had evenriages, baptisms, and burials. The father added some literary instruction to the neces-multiplied his functions in the shop, the sary professional teaching, notably the ele- 88 JOSEPH HAYDN ments of Latin, which were, however, indis-pensable to a future organist or kapellmeisterwho is to be a commentator upon sacredbooks. This education had a practical end in Haydns family nor his benevolentinstructor intended to keep him a long time Frankhs. The regular work never exceededtwo hours a day during the eight years thatthe son of the wheelwright of Rohrau waswith Reutter. He used the time thus gained toperfect his musical studies, but at first in asingularly indirect and slow manner, by lis-tening to the organ every time it was played. A SPINET OF HAYDNS TIME. in charge. One of the numerous free insti-tutions which were of necessity always renew-ing their childish personnel was the economi-cal apprenticeship marked out for the futurekapellmeister. So when chance conductedReutter, the kapellmeister of Saint-Etiennein Vienna, to Hamburg on a recruiting tour,Frankh made haste to have him hear hiscousin. Joseph Haydn passed through thecustomary trial of reading with remarkablereadiness; but, to Reutters surprise, the childdid not know how to trill. How do yousuppose I could know how to do what youask ? said he, ingenuously. My cousin him-self does not know how. Reutter gave hima lesson at once, and Haydn caught the trickwith such rapidity that he performed a trillin the course of that interview. Engaged as chorister, Joseph Haydn en-tered the school of Saint-Etienne, and enjoyedthere much more liberty than at his cousin in the Vienna cathedral. At thirteen he wasseized by th
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