Crossword-Solution: BARYTON 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

EISENSTADT--1761-1766 The Esterhazy Family--Haydn's Agreement--An "Upper Servant"?--Dependence in the Order of Nature--Material and Artistic Advantages of the Esterhazy Appointment--Some Disadvantages--Capellmeister Werner--A Posthumous Tribute--Esterhazy "The Magnificent"--Compositions for Baryton--A Reproval--Operettas and other Occasional Works--First Symphonies.

More, he was a performer himself, and played the baryton, a stringed instrument not unlike the viola-da-gamba, in general use up to the end of the eighteenth century.

Haydn naturally desired to please his prince, and being perpetually pestered to provide new works for the noble baryton player, he thought it would flatter him if he himself learnt to handle the baryton.

Kraft presented the prince with a composition into which he had introduced a solo for himself as second baryton.

Coming to a difficult passage, he exclaimed indignantly: "For the future, write solos only for my part; it is no credit to you to play better than I; it is your duty." Compositions for Baryton Haydn, so far as we can make out, never essayed the baryton again, but he wrote a surprising amount of music for it, considering its complicated mechanism and the weakness of its tone.