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Haydn’s Cheerful Sacred Music

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 5, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 6.

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Haydn’s Cheerful Sacred Music

WHEN Haydn, the celebrated composer, was asked how all his sacred music was so cheerful, he said: “I can not make it otherwise; I write according to the thoughts I feel; when I think upon God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap, as it were, from my pen; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be pardoned me that I serve Him with a cheerful spirit.”