Phillip Emanuel Bach, who died in 1788.)

97. "Here, at last, is something from which one can learn!"

(Mozart's ejaculation when he heard Bach's motet for double
chorus, "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied," at Leipsic in 1789.
Rochlitz relates: "Scarcely had the choir sung a couple of
measures when Mozart started. After a few more measures he cried
out: 'What is that?' and now his whole soul seemed to be in his
ears.")

98. "Melt us two together, and we will fall far short of making a
Haydn."

(Said to the pianist Leopold Kozeluch who had triumphantly
pointed out a few slips due to carelessness in Haydn's
compositions.)

99. "It was a duty that I owed to Haydn to dedicate my quartets
to him; for it was from him that I learned how to write
quartets."

(Reported by Nissen. Joseph Haydn once said, when the worth of
"Don Giovanni" was under discussion: "This I do know, that Mozart
is the greatest composer in the world today.")

100. "Nobody can do everything,--jest and terrify, cause laughter
or move profoundly,--like Joseph Haydn."

(Reported by Nissen [the biographer who married Mozart's widow.