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...Away the Script. His career lasted over half a century; by 1803, at 71, he was too weak to compose, but lingered on six more years to counsel such later hotbloods as the young Beethoven and Weber. For most of his life he was court composer to Prince Nicholas Esterházy, who obliged him to wear livery and dine at the servants' table, but who gave him every encouragement to tinker with accepted musical conventions and, when necessary, to kick them over. Haydn's musical life, in fact, stands as a direct contradiction to the old movie...
...Esterház (in eastern Austria), Haydn created operas, symphonies and chamber works whose freshness remains remarkably vivid. The Prince gave him a crack orchestra, and Haydn taught it a dramatic musical vocabulary unknown before his time. When it pleased him, he would begin a symphony (Nos. 22, 49) with a long slow movement instead of the expected brilliant allegro. Some of his effects were comic: in the finale of Symphony No. 60, the violins are asked to mistune their lowest string from G down to F, then pause in mock horror and raucously retune. At the end of Symphony...
...when they started importing Dresden porcelain and Parisian jewelry. Then, with political upheavals in France, diamond prices tumbled 50% in Europe, and Tiffany's bought all it could, including Marie Antoinette's diamond belt and $100,000 worth of jewels owned by Hungary's Prince Esterh...
...Coppet's Team. The league of which the Budapesters are now the practically undisputed champions is a large one. Its impressive history goes back to the 18th Century day when Hungary's Prince Esterházy hired Franz Joseph Haydn to write and play quartets and symphonies for him. Quartet playing has been one of the chief private pleasures of almost every accomplished string player who ever lived-and the public profession of scores of them. Many wealthy European amateurs have spent their space time playing second fiddle in a quartet with three professionals, supported for the purpose...
...Budapest was reported the timely finding of Schubert's Gastein symphony, missing now for 102 years. It came from one Feri Vambery, a book collector, who got it from Irme Havasi, a bookkeeper who inherited it from a great granduncle, servant in the house of Count Esterházy at Zélesz (Hungary). There the shy, round Schubert used to go to teach young Caroline Esterházy. He left his manuscript one day and Great Granduncle Havasi stole it, left it when he died as his legacy. Last year the Columbia Phonograph Co. offered...