English Translation

21a) - 6 - Attitude again, in the Adagio the themes softness and mildness express, The Menuet and the Trio is much less careless than these movements tend to be. The finale forcibly increases into a joyousness, but after barely loo beats all the instruments (on the doinate of Fis) stop and the beat and key of the ADAgio (the 2nd set) enter. Shortly afterwards, according to the score specification "nothing more" one musician wipes out the candles on the desk and slips away; first the 2nd hornist and the 1st oboist, l0 bars later the bassoonist takes up two more bars and goes off, after 7 more bars the l.Hor st and the 2rd oboist disappears. Then the violoncell and the bass. The violin brings in Fis-dur the theme of the Adagio, which appears in the 2nd movement in A-dur. Then the cellist, the 3rd and 4th violinist and the viola player disappears. Only Tomasini (l. violin) and a 2nd violinist make a subdued sound of another motif, which also gradually dies. When Haydn now sent himself to follow them, the prince rose up and handed him the hand with the following words: "I have well understood their intention, the musicians yearn for home - now well - tomorrow we pack up". 15730 II. H-Obergruppenführer State Minister K.H. Fr a n k presented.