Excerpt from Haydn
Of all the arts Music is the one which appeals most to the emotions. It is a language in itself, and though perhaps in its highest forms it is but poorly understood except by the educated, yet there is hardly any one among the masses of the uninitiated who is not moved to a greater or lesser extent by its strains. It can bring tears to the eyes, or happiness to the heart; it can thrill with its grandeur, charm with its melodiousness, or excite with its passion; it can inspire all the sentiments of faith, religion, hope, and love which are never quite dormant in our hearts; in short, it can rouse within us all those varied emotions of which human nature is capable, and make us the better and nobler for the arousing. The great composers, through the medium of their genius, have all impressed us in one or another of these ways. Handel has taken us to the realms of eternal glory; Beethoven to the land of the Titans; Mendelssohn to fairyland; Schubert to the skies where the birds sing their unforced and happy songs; Wagner to the dwelling-place of heroes and romance: but among all these, it has been reserved almost exclusively to Haydn to transport us, in his own delicious manner, to the land where cheerfulness and simple delight hold their innocent and unceasing revels.
Papa Haydn! That is what he has often been called. But perhaps a still more appropriate name for him would be Grandpapa Haydn.
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