In Nomine Jesu

                                         [WORDS HAYDN WROTE AT THE BEGINNING OF  A NEW COMPOSITION]

There are so few happy and contented people here below, sorrow and anxiety pursue

them from everywhere. Perhaps your work may, some day, become a spring from

which the careworn may draw a few moment’s rest and refreshment.

                        [WHAT HAYDN SAID TO SOME ORCHESTRA MEMBERS PLAYING THE CREATION]

If an idea soon comes without much difficulty, it expands. But if it does not make

progress, I try to find out if I have erred in some way or other, therefore forfeiting

grace, and I pray for mercy until I feel that I am forgiven.

                                             [COMMENTS HAYDN MADE REGARDING HIS COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS]

When I was working on The Creation, I felt so impregnated with the Divine certainty,

that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to

grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

                                                              [WORDS SPOKEN BY HAYDN TO A FRIEND]

I offer all my praises to Almighty God, for I owe them to Him alone.

                                           [QUOTE FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY HAYDN TELLING HIS LIFE STORY]

Not from me, from there, above, comes everything.

                                                     [REACTION TO OVATION AFTER PERFORMANCE OF THE CREATION,

                                                   THE LAST CONCERT HAYDN ATTENDED, ON MARCH 27, 1808]

Soli Deo Gloria

                                                            [WORDS HAYDN WROTE AT THE END OF A NEW COMPOSITION]