JOSEPH HAYDN AND THE "SEVEN WORDS" Joseph Haydn, that great musician, the father of the symphony and of all modern music, has been neglected.

We are too prone to forget that concerts are, in a sense, museums in which the older schools of music should be represented.

Music is something besides a source of sensuous pleasure and keen emotion, and this resource, precious as it is, is only a chance corner in the wide realm of musical art.

He who does not get absolute pleasure from a simple series of well-constructed chords, beautiful only in their arrangement, is not really fond of music.

The same is true of the one who does not prefer the first prelude of the _Wohltemperirte Klavier_, played without gradations, just as the author wrote it for the harpsichord, to the same prelude embellished with an impassioned melody; or who does not prefer a popular melody of character or a Gregorian chant without any accompaniment to a series of dissonant and pretentious chords.
The directors of great concerts should love music themselves and should lead the public to appreciate it.