[Figure: a musical score excerpt]

The autograph score, dated 1761, and preserved at Eisenstadt,
is superscribed, "In Nomine Domini," and closes with Haydn's
customary "Laus Deo" after the final signature The work is in
the usual four movements. The symphonies of this date included
also those known in England as "Le Matin" and "Le Soir," the
one beginning--

[Figure: a musical score excerpt] and the other--

[figure: a musical score excerpt]

Of the string quartets and other instrumental compositions of the
period nothing need be said. In all these the composer was simply
feeling his way towards a more perfect expression, and as few of
them are now performed, their interest for us is almost entirely
antiquarian.

CHAPTER IV

ESTERHAZ--1766-1790

Haydn's Fame extending--Haydn and Mozart compared--Esterhaz--Its
Puppet Theatre--A Busy Life--Opera at Esterhaz--First Oratorio--
Opponents and Intriguers--"L'Isola Disabitata"--A Love Episode--
Correspondence with Artaria and Forster--Royal Dedicatees--
The "Seven Words"--The "Toy" and "Farewell" Symphonies.

To crowd the details of a professional career covering close upon