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59. To the daughter of the bookkeeper, Kandler, my piano, by the organ-builder Schanz.
60. The small Parisian medal to Count v. Harrach, and also the bust a l'antique of Herr Gra.s.si.
61. To the widow Wallnerin in Schottenhof,....................100
62. To the Father Prior Leo in Eisenstadt, of the ”Brothers of Mercy,”.......................................50
63. To the Hospital for the Poor in Eisenstadt (erased),.......75
For the ratification of this my last will and testament, I have written it entirely in my own hand, and earnestly beg the authorities to consider it, even if not strictly or properly legal, in the light at least of a codicil, and to do all in their power to make it valid and binding.
JOSEPH HAYDN.
May 5, 1801.
Should G.o.d call me away suddenly, this my last will and testament, though not written on stamped paper, to be considered valid in law, and the stamps to be repaid tenfold to my sovereign.
In the name of the Holy Trinity. The uncertainty of the period when it may please my Creator, in His infinite wisdom, to call me from time into eternity has caused me, being in sound health, to make my last will with regard to my little remaining property. I commend my soul to my all-merciful Creator; my body I wish to be interred, according to the Roman Catholic forms, in consecrated ground. A first-cla.s.s funeral. For my soul I bequeath No. 1.
Joseph Haydn
Vienna, Dec. 6, 1801
APPENDIX B: CATALOGUE OF WORKS
There are unusual difficulties in the way of compiling a thoroughly satisfactory catalogue of Haydn's instrumental works. From the want of any generally-accepted consecutive numbering, and the fact that several are in the same key, this is particularly the case with the symphonies.
Different editions have different numberings, and the confusion is increased by a further re-numbering of the piano symphonic scores arranged for two and four hands. In Breitkopf & Hartel's catalogue many works are included among the symphonies which are also found among the smaller compositions, and others are catalogued twice. Even the composer himself, in compiling his thematic catalogue, made mistakes. In the present list we have been content for the most part to state the numbers of the various instrumental works, without attempting to notify each individual composition. Indeed, to do otherwise would have called for an extensive use of music type. Nor have we thought it necessary to include the supposit.i.tious and doubtful works, for which Pohl's list may be consulted.
INSTRUMENTAL
125 symphonies, including overtures to operas and plays. Of these 94 are published in parts, 40 in score; 29 remain in MS. About 40 have been arranged for pianoforte 2 hands, 60 for 4 hands, 10 for 8 hands.
Pohl gives a thematic list of the 12 symphonies composed for Salomon, numbered in the order of their occurrence in the catalogue of the London Philharmonic Society. These include:
t.i.tLE OF WORK KEY DATE
”The Surprise” G major 1791
”The Clock,” referring D minor 1794 to the Andante
”The Military” G major 1794
Other symphonies known by their t.i.tles are:
t.i.tLE OF WORK KEY DATE
”Le Matin” D major ”Le Midi” C major ”Le Soir” G major 1761 ”The Farewell” A major 1772 ”Maria Theresa” C major 1773 ”The Schoolmaster” E flat 1774 ”Feuer Symphonie” (probably overture to ”Die Feuersbrunst”) A major 1774 ”La Cha.s.se” D major 1780 ”Toy” Symphony C major 1780 ”La Reine de France” B major for Paris, 1786 ”The Oxford” G major 1788
”The Seven Words from the Cross.” Originally for orchestra.
Arranged first for 2 violins, viola and ba.s.s; afterwards for soli, chorus and orchestra.
66 various compositions for wind and strings, separately and combined, including divertimenti, concerted pieces, etc.
7 notturnos or serenades for the lyre.
7 marches.
6 scherzandos.
1 sestet.