They should not allow the masters to be forgotten, for their only fault was that they were not born in our times and they never dreamed of attempting to satisfy the tastes of an unborn generation.

Above all, the directors should grant recognition to masters like Joseph Haydn who were in advance of their own times and who seem now and then to belong to our own.
The only examples of Joseph Haydn's immense work that the present generation knows are two or three symphonies, rarely and perfunctorily performed.

This is the same as saying that we do not know him at all.

No musician was ever more prolific or showed a greater wealth of imagination.

When we examine this mine of jewels, we are astonished to find at every step a gem which we would have attributed to the invention of some modern or other.