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[ Jos. Haydn hung his rooms round with forty-six canons of his own composition, framed and glazed (Griesinger, Biogr. Notizen, p. 97. Carpani, Le Haydine, p. 121. Cf. Biogr. Skizze von Mich. Haydn, p. 29).]
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[ His canoni bernesche were, according to Carpani (Le Haydine, p. 113), widely disseminated.]
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[ Neukomm informed me that a canon by Mich. Haydn, ascribed to Mozart, was composed in Salzburg with reference to a particular person; another of his comic canons, suggested by the joking rhymes of the organ-builder Egedacher in Salzburg, is given in facsimile in the Cäcilia (XVI., p. 212).]
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[ One, known as "Im grab ists finster," is very doubtful, and one mentioned by Zelter (Briefw., II., p. 128); "Hätts nit gedacht das Fischgraten so stechen thaten," is by Wenzel Müller.]
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[ Especially 553, 554 K.]