We are dazzled by their rays, and where we expect black-and-whites we find pastels grown dim with time.
Of Haydn's one hundred and eighteen symphonies, many are simple trifles written from day to day for Prince Esterhazy's little chapel, when the master was musical director there.

But after Haydn was called to London by Salomon, a director of concerts, where he had a large orchestra at his disposal, his genius took magnificent flights.

Then he wrote great symphonies and in them the clarinets for the first time unfolded the resources from which the modern orchestra has profited so abundantly.
Originally the clarinet played a humble role, as the name indicates.
_Clarinetto_ is the diminutive of _clarino_, and the instrument was invented to replace the shrill tones that the trumpet lost as it gained in depth of tone.
Old editions of Haydn's symphonies show a picturesque arrangement, in that the disposition of the orchestra is shown on the printed page.
Above, is a group made up of drums and the brass.

In the center is a second group--the flutes, oboes and bassoons, while the stringed instruments are at the bottom of the page.

When clarinets are used, they are a part of the first group.