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The violin and its music, 1885
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1another." Fétis follows in the same tone of criticism. To mention Porpora and omit the traditional anecdote relative to Haydn's menial performances about the person of the Neapolitan singing-master, is like sending a dish to table without the customary sauce. A Venetian nobleman was at Vienna, as Ambassador for the Venetian Republic; Porpora was staying at the Embassy, when Haydn resolved to attach himself to the Ambassador's suite, in order to gather musical knowledge from the Maestro. Haydn, indifferent to everybody but Porpora, employed every means to make a favourable impression upon him, and thus gain his patronage. He rose betimes, brushed Porpora's boots, and arranged, to the best of his ability, the musician's wig. Porpora, frequently in ill humour, acknowledged these little attentions on the part of Haydn by calling him a fool. At length, however, the perseverance of his young attendant overcame the seeming insurmountable obstacles, and Haydn not only received the instruction he sought, but a pension of three pounds per month. Haydn, now independent, purchased a black coat and attached himself to the service of the Church of the Fathers of Mercy, as one of the Violinists, and filled up his spare time in the study of composition.
3Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, though chiefly known as a composer of music for the Church, wrote thirty trios for two Violins and a Bass, two-thirds of which were printed in London and Amsterdam. I
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