Word: zys
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During the nearly 30 years that he spent in the service of the Esterházys, Haydn gained vast experience in conducting and producing operas-his own and those of other composers. In the single year of 1786, he led a total of 125 performances. But he was never a man of the commercial theater as Mozart was. His operas, mostly light in character, did not have to please any taste but the Esterházys'. And rather than working closely with a librettist to create something new-as Mozart did with Da Ponte-Haydn was largely content...
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