omposers.

That he was not deep, that he does not speak a message of the inner
life to the latter-day individual, who, in the Ossianic phrase, likes
to indulge in "the luxury of grief," must, of course, be admitted. The
definite embodiment of feeling which we find in Beethoven is not to be
found in him. It was not in his nature. "My music," says Schubert, "is
the production of my genius and my misery." Haydn, like Mendelssohn,
was never more than temporarily miserable. But in music the gospel of
despair seldom wants its preachers. To-day it is Tschaikowsky; to-morrow
it will be another. Haydn meant to make the world happy, not to tear it
with agony. "I know," he said, "that God has bestowed a talent upon me,
and I thank Him for it. I think I have done my duty, and been of use in
my generation by my works. Let others do the same."

APPENDIX A: HAYDN'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

The following draft of Haydn's will is copied from Lady Wallace's
Letters of Distinguished Musicians (London, 1867), where it was
published in full for the first time. The much-corrected original is in
the Court Library at Vienna. Dies says: "Six weeks before his death,
in April 1809, he read over his will to his servants in the presence
of witnesses, and asked them whether they were satisfied with his
provisions or not. The good people were quite taken by surprise at the
kindness of their master's heart, seeing themselves thus provided for
in time to come, and they thanked him with tears in their eyes." The
extracts given by Dies vary in some particulars from the following,
because Haydn's final testamentary dispositions were made at a later
date. But, as Lady Wallace says, it is not the legal but the moral
aspect of the affair that interests us. Here we see epitomized all the
goodness and beauty of Haydn's character. The document runs as follows:

FLORINS.

1. For holy masses,........................................12

2. To the Norman School,....................................5

3. To the Poorhouse,........................................5

4. To the executor of my will.............................200
And also the small portrait of Grassi.

5. To the pastor,..........................................10

6. Expenses of my funeral, first-class,...................200

7. To my dear brother Michael, in Salzburg,..............4000

8. To my