Esterhazy Paid the Piper
[N the series "Symphonies by Haydn" I don’t imagine it is 4YO’s intention to broadcast all 125 of Haydn’s Symphonies, but seeing No. 67 in the programme, I wondered once more at the prodigious output of the man. Even in a moderate-length work for small orchestra, an unbelievable amount of sheer hard work is necessary in the way of writing down notes and copying parts, before the composer’s work emerges from his mind on to the manuscript, and’ thence by way of performance to the audience. In this regard, sucha position as Haydn occupied in the service of his patron, although arduous-and irksome in many ways, did at least provide the composer with ideal surroundings for the pragtice of composition. However much their vaunted sense of freedom may appeal to modern composers who have to struggle to maintain themselves, it seems possible that some of them would agree with van Loon that there are worse things than the interest of a really enlightened patron of the Prince Estérhazy stamp.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 353, 29 March 1946, Page 12
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173Esterhazy Paid the Piper New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 353, 29 March 1946, Page 12
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