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Updated: June 1, 2025
Around him lay eighteen others of the most distinguished of the clergy among them, Diebold von Geroldseck, who had formerly called him to Einsiedeln, Wolfgang Joner, abbot at Cappel, and the commander Conrad Schmid in the midst of 39 men of Kuessnacht. Seven members of the Small and nineteen of the Great Council had fallen.
"They have all been on the wrong track Clostermeier, Schmid, and whatever the names of the other people may be who have written about it!" cried the Collector ardently.
And he approached Haydn, who held out both his hands to him, and greeted him with a gentle smile. "Do you come to bid farewell to your old friend once more previous to his death?" he asked, mildly. "Do you wish to take leave of me, my dear friend Schmid?" "No, I do not come to bid you farewell, but wish you good-day," said Schmid, warmly, "and pray you to receive this gentleman here kindly.
"Let us go," whispered Schmid, pointing to Haydn, who had feebly sunk back into his easy-chair, and was leaning his pale head against the cushions. Iffland fixed his eyes for a long time with an expression of heart- felt grief on the groaning, broken form reposing in the easy-chair. "And that is all that is left of a great composer, of a genius who delighted the whole world!" he sighed.
The Viennese proved it to you on hearing your sublime music the other day." "But I proved to them that I had become so feeble that I could no longer bear listening to my own music. I had to leave the room long before the performance was at an end." "You ought not to have gone to the concert at all," said Schmid. "The excitement might have been injurious to your health."
Much of his power was due, not to calmly reasoned-out plans of culture, but to his profound sympathy, which gave him a quick perception of childish needs and difficulties. He lacked the ability logically to co-ordinate and develop the truths which he thus from time to time laid hold of; and had in great measure to leave this to his assistants, Kruesi, Tobler, Buss, Niederer, and Schmid.
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