Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . rederick the Great; songsand romances; and the prayer, with pianoaccompaniment, May God preserve the Em-peror Francis ! which he murmured whendying. But these works, like his theatricalcompositions, have remained in obscurity;nevertheless, a number of the latter are ex-tant. Haydn, without dreaming of applyingto them formulated principles, after a fashionimprovised them for the amateur theater atEsterhazy. In response to friends, who wereastonished to see him consecrate two yearsto The Creation, he replied I am work-ing a long time on it because I
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . rederick the Great; songsand romances; and the prayer, with pianoaccompaniment, May God preserve the Em-peror Francis ! which he murmured whendying. But these works, like his theatricalcompositions, have remained in obscurity;nevertheless, a number of the latter are ex-tant. Haydn, without dreaming of applyingto them formulated principles, after a fashionimprovised them for the amateur theater atEsterhazy. In response to friends, who wereastonished to see him consecrate two yearsto The Creation, he replied I am work-ing a long time on it because I desire it toendure a long time. He attributed littleimportance to his theatrical music. Thesymphony itself was for him the musicaldrama par excellence,— in its essence, apartfrom all foreign aids, independent of all aux-iliaries,— moving by its own force and in itsown freedom ; and it is as the Father of Sym-phony that he, one of the most prolificgeniuses of one Of the grandest epochs ofart, will be venerated throughout the com-ing AN AUTOGRAPH OF HAYDN. FROM THE ROYAL LIBRARY, BERLIN.
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