1.This was a great honour - Haydn had been asked in 1792 - and he conducted his own twelve minuets and twelve German dances.
这可是一个很大的荣誉——海顿曾于1792年受过此类委托——而且贝多芬亲自指挥了自己的12首小步舞曲和12首日尔曼舞曲。
2.It is not necessary to tell any quartet player the world that they began with Haydn. All quartet everywhere begin with a little Haydn.
不需要告诉四重奏的演奏者，全世界各地都知道四重奏是要从海顿的一些作品开始的。
3.Haydn did not create sonata form, but he was a master of it.
海顿并不是奏鸣曲式的创始人，却是其中的行家里手。
4.Mozart is a contradiction in that he was more conservative and followed the "rules" much more than Haydn, yet his music is incomparable.
莫扎特是个矛盾体，他比海顿更保守而循规蹈矩，但他的音乐却无与伦比。
5.Among music genres composed by Haydn, String Quartet was one of the most important.
而在海顿众多的音乐体裁创作中，弦乐四重奏又显得尤为重要。
6.As an old man, Haydn wrote his oratorio The Creation and another equally splendid work for voices, The Seasons.
晚年，海顿写了清唱剧《创世纪》和另一首也同样很出色的声乐作品《四季》。
7.Haydn: You know I'm thinking of buying an apartment in the Greenham area.
海顿：我想在格林汉区买公寓套房。
8.Mozart, Haydn and Gluck were strong admirers and Beethoven described him as "the greatest composer that ever lived" .
莫扎特、海顿，格鲁克对其称赞有加。贝多芬更称其为“有史以来最伟大的作曲家”。
9.In addition to his younger brother's firsthand reports, Haydn would have read published accounts of Mozart's exploits as a child prodigy.
海顿不仅从其弟处得到了第一手资料，还读到过大量有关于音乐神童的报道。
10.His Early period was heavily influenced by his teachers, mainly Mozart and Haydn .
他的早期受到其恩师的影响甚深，主要是莫扎特及海登。