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Scan 380
The violin and its music, 1885
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 362. See the scan on archive.org.
1messenger might do, and sent Bland, the music publisher, to Vienna in 1787. When admitted to the presence of Haydn, the great master was in the act of shaving, and exclaimed, "I would give my best quartett for a good razor;" Bland at once went to his lodging and fetched his own, which he presented to Haydn, and received in exchange the quartett often called the "Rasie-messer."*
3The genius of Haydn, in place of being mainly exercised for the benefit of German Courts, was now about to be at the disposal of the whole musical world, and the composer rendered independent of his mercenary and niggardly publishers. By the aid of Salomon's enterprise, and the commercial estimate set upon the composer's abilities, Haydn was about to obtain, in three years, a greater reward than he received from his patron Prince, and his publishers, during a service of thirty years.
5In a letter of Haydn's, written from London, we read, "I had a kind Prince, but was obliged at times to be dependent on base souls. I often sighed for release, and now I have it in some measure. The consciousness of being no longer a bond-servant sweetens all my toils; but, dear as liberty is to me, I do hope on my return to enter the service of Prince Esterhazy (this refers to Prince Anton) solely for the sake of my poor
7* Herr C. F. Pohl's "Notice of Haydn."
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