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...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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