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To crowd the details of a professional career covering close upon
a quarter of a century into a single chapter would, in the case
of most of the great composers, be an altogether impossible task.
In Haydn's case the difficulty is to find the material for even
so slight a record. His life went on smoothly, almost sleepily,
as we should now think, in the service of his prince, without
personal incident and with next to no disturbance from the
outside world. If he had not been a genius of the first rank the
outside world would, in all probability, never have heard of his
existence.
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