canons to the music-publisher. I will answer for
it, that they will bring enough to pay for a decent funeral."

CHAPTER IX. HAYDN: THE MAN

Face and Features--Portraits--Social Habits--Partial to Pretty
Women--His Letters--His Humour--His Generosity--Unspoiled by
Success--His Piety--His Industry--Habits of Composition--Impatient of
Pedantry.

Face and Features

Something of Haydn's person and character will have already been
gathered from the foregoing pages. He considered himself an ugly man,
and, in Addison's words, thought that the best expedient was "to be
pleasant upon himself." His face was deeply pitted with small-pox, and
the nose, large and aquiline, was disfigured by the polypus which he
had inherited from his mother. In complexion he was so dark as to
have earned in some quarters the familiar nickname of "The Moor." His
underlip was thick and hanging, his jaw massive. "The mouth and chin
are Philistine," wrote Lavater under his silhouette, noting, at the same
time, "something out of the common in the eyes and the nose." The eyes
were dark gray. They are described as "beaming with benevolence," and
he used to say himself: "Anyone can see by the look of me that I am a
good-natured sort of fellow."

In stature he was rather under the middle height, with legs
disproportionately short, a defect rendered more noticeable by the style
of his dress, which he refused to change with the changes of fashion.
Dies writes: "His features were regular, his expression animated, yet,
at the same time, temperate, gentle and attractive. His face wore
a stern look when in repose, but in conversation it was smiling and
cheerful. I never heard him laugh out loud. His build was substantial,
but deficient in muscle." Another of his acquaintances says that
"notwithstanding a cast of physiognomy rather morose, and a short way
of expressing himself, which seemed to indicate an ill-tempered man, the
character of Haydn was gay, open and humorous." From these testimonies
we get the impression of a rather unusual combination of the attractive
and the repulsive, the intellectual and the vulgar. What Lavater
described as the "lofty and good" brow was partly concealed by a wig,
with side curls, and a pig-tail, which he wore to the last. His dress as
a private individual has not been described in detail, but the Esterhazy
uniform, though frequently changing in colour and style, showed him in
knee-breeches, white stockings, lace ru