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The violin and its music, 1885
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 363. See the scan on archive.org.
1family. I doubt much whether I shall find this desire realised, for in his letter my Prince complains of my long absence, and exacts my speedy return in the most absolute terms, which, however, I cannot comply with."
3On the day of Haydn's departure for London with Salomon, Mozart dined with the travellers, and saw them seated in the lumbering old German coach that conveyed them on the road to Calais. A similar engagement was made between Salomon and Mozart to that which had now commenced with Haydn. Twelve months after bidding his master farewell, poor Mozart died, and thus the English nation was deprived of the honour of being associated with the Symphonies of another of Germany's greatest musicians.
5In the letters of Haydn we read of his stormy passage from Calais to Dover; of the excitement his arrival in London created throughout the musical world; of his lodgings in Great Pulteney Street, Golden Square. In his diary he writes of his visit to Dr. Herschel, the great astronomer, but originally a professor of music. Of his presence at the Lord Mayor's banquet on the 9th of November—his description of which strangely contrasts with that all-important city dinner of to-day, on the morrow of which Europe is, in stirring times, on the tip-toe of curiosity to hearken to a British Cabinet's revelations—he writes, "After dinner there was dancing in three rooms. In that set apart for the
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