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Musical Memories

CHAPTER XI
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This has been provided with Latin words and is sung in churches.

This aria was assigned to a Creon who does not appear in the other fragments.

One scene shows Eurydice running up and down the banks pursued by demons.
Another depicts the death of Orpheus, killed by the Bacchantes.

This score is a curiosity and nothing more, and a reading causes no regret that the work was not completed.
Like Gluck, Joseph Haydn had the rare advantage of developing constantly.

He did not reach the height of his genius until an age when the finest faculties are, ordinarily, in a decline.


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