Music Of The Great Composers --

Josef Haydn-Part 3 A drummer being wanted for a local procession, young Haydn undertook the part. Unfortunately he was so small of stature that the instrument had to be carried before him on the back of a colleague. That this colleague happened to be a hunchback only made the incident more ludicrous. Haydn had rather a partiality for the drum, a satisfying instrument, as Meredith says, because of its rotundity. According to Pohl, the particular..