...150
54. To my pupil, Anton Polzelli,..............................100
55. To poor blind Adam in Eisenstadt,..........................24
56. To my gracious Prince, my gold Parisian medal and
the letter that accompanied it, with a humble
request to grant them a place in the museum at
Forchtentein.
57. To Mdlle. C. Czeck, waiting-woman to Princess
Graschalkowitz (erased),.................................1000
58. To Fraulein Anna Bucholz,.................................100
Inasmuch as in my youth her grandfather lent
me 150 florins when I greatly needed them,
which, however, I repaid fifty years ago.
59. To the daughter of the bookkeeper, Kandler, my
piano, by the organ-builder Schanz.
60. The small Parisian medal to Count v. Harrach, and
also the bust a l'antique of Herr Grassi.
61. To the widow Wallnerin in Schottenhof,....................100
62. To the Father Prior Leo in Eisenstadt, of the
"Brothers of Mercy,".......................................50
63. To the Hospital for the Poor in Eisenstadt (erased),.......75
For the ratification of this my last will and testament, I have
written it entirely in my own hand, and earnestly beg the
authorities to consider it, even if not strictly or properly legal,
in the light at least of a codicil, and to do all in their power
to make it valid and binding.
JOSEPH HAYDN.
May 5, 1801.
Should God call me away suddenly, this my last will and testament,
though not written on stamped paper, to be considered valid in
law, and the stamps to be repaid tenfold to my sovereign.
In the name of the Holy Trinity. The uncertainty of the
period when it may please my Creator, in His infinite wisdom,
to call me from time into eternity has caused me, being in sound
health, to make my last will with regard to my little remaining
property. I commend my soul to my all-merciful Creator; my
body I wish to be interred, according to the Roman Catholic
forms, in consecrated ground. A first-class funeral. For my
soul I bequeath No. 1.
Joseph Haydn
Vienna, Dec. 6, 1801
APPENDIX B: CATALOGUE OF WORKS
There are unusual difficulties in the way of compiling a thoroughly
satisfactory catalogue of Haydn's instrumental works. From the want of
any generally-accepted consecutive numbering, and the fact that several
are in the same key, this is pa
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