Part 16 (2/2)

After the death of Pohl in 1887 it was coraphie Universelle” Fetis

APPENDIX D: HAYDN'S BROTHERS

Of the large fareat composer, devoted themselves to music

The first, JOHANN EVANGELIST HAYDN, ed in that capacity in the Esterhazy Chapel His health had, however, been delicate from the first, and his professional career was far frouished Born in 1737, he became, as we have seen, a chorister and solo-vocalist at St Stephen's, Vienna He was a good violinist, and played the organ so well that he was soon able to act as deputy-organist at the cathedral In 1757 he was appointed Capellmeister to the Bishop of Grosswardein, and in 1762 becaanist to Archbishop Sigis There he naturally caraphy his name is often mentioned Mozart on one occasion wrote two compositions for him which the archbishop received as Michael Haydn's The Concertmeister was incapacitated by illness at the time, and Mozart came to his rescue to save his salary, which the archbishop had characteristically threatened to stop Mozart also scored several of his sacred works for practice

Michael Haydn re till his death in 1806 He had the very , which was afterwards doubled; but although he was more than once offered prefer He was happily anist; and with his church work, his pupils--aht nothing ed the city in 1801 he was a some property and a month's salary, but his brother and friends repaired the loss with interest This misfortune led the Empress Maria Theresa to commission him to compose a mass, for which she rewarded him munificently Another of his masses ritten for Prince Esterhazy, ice offered him the vice-Capellht Michael too straightforward for this post

”Ours is a court life,” he said, ”but a very different one fro It is uncommonly hard to do what you want” If any appoint it was this; and it is said that he refused it only because he hoped that the chapel at Salzburg would be reorganized and his salary raised

Michael Haydn is buried in a side chapel of St Peter's Church, Salzburg

Ahis skull He is described by Pohl as ”upright, good-teh in iven to drink” His correspondence shows him to have been a warm-hearted friend; and he had the sa his hly of hi that his Church compositions were superior to his own in earnestness, severity of style and sustained power When he asked leave to copy the canons which hung in Joseph's bedroom at Vienna, Joseph replied: ”Get aith your copies; you can compose much better for yourself” Michael's stateood librettos and the sae as my brother, and I should not be behind him” This could scarcely have been the case, since, as Pohl points out, Michael Haydn failed in the very qualities which ensured his brother's success As it was, he wrote a very large number of works, most of which remained in manuscript A Mass in D is his best-known coh mention should be ,” adapted from a mass composed for the use of country choirs Michael Haydn was noreat coenerous intention

APPENDIX E: A SELECTION OF HAYDN LETTERS

The greater number of Haydn's extant letters deal almost exclusively with business matters, and are therefore of comparatively little interest to the reader of his life The following selectionthe composer in his more personal and social relations

It is drawn froer, which was discovered by Theodor Georg von Karajan, in Vienna, and published first in the Jahrbuch fur Vaterlandische Geschichte, and afterwards in his J

Haydn in London, 1791 and 1792 (1861) The translation here used, by the courtesy of Messrs Longman, is that of Lady Wallace

The naer has been raphy Her husband was the Esterhazy physician In that capacity he paid frequent visits to Eisenstadt and Esterhaz (which Haydn spells Estoras) and so became inti the long winter evenings in Vienna was in the habit of asse the best artists in his house at Schottenhof, where on Sundays Mozart, Haydn, Dittersdorf, Albrechtsberger, and others were often to be found His wife, Marianne--nee von Kayser--was a good singer, and was sought after by all the musical circles in Vienna She was naturally attracted to Haydn, and although she was nearly forty years of age when the correspondence opened in 1789, ”a personal connection was gradually developed in the course of their ave rise to a bright bond of friendshi+p between the lady and the old, though still youthful, iven have of necessity been worked into the biography The correspondence originated in the following note froer:

January 1789

DEAR M HAYDN,

With your kind pereio in your aded it from the score quite alone, and without the least help fro that, if you should discover any errors, you will be so good as to correct the do I wish ain in Vienna, in order to prove further h esteem

Your obedient servant,

MARIA ANNA V GENZINGER

To this Haydn replies as follows:

ESTORAS, Janr 14, 1789

DEAR MADAM,

In all reeable to , and reading so many kind expressions; but still eraved at once by any publisher I should like to knohether you arranged the adagio fro trouble of first putting it into score fro it for the piano, for, if the latter, such an attention would be too flattering to me, and I feel that I really do not deserve it

Best and kindest Frau v Genzinger! I only await a hint from you as to how, and in ay, I can serve you; in the io, and hope that h they be, may ensure me some commands from you