Friday, March 25, 2005

Music Of The Great Composers --

Josef Haydn-Part 15 Bland, a London publisher, had been sent over to Vienna by Salomon (7\1787) to coax Haydn into an engagement. When he was admitted he found the composer in the act of shaving, and complaining of the bluntness of the razor. I would give by best quartet for a good razor! Bland immediately ran back to his lodging and returning with his own razors of good English steel, presented them to Haydn, who gave him in exchange his latest quartet sti..