50. To his present cashier,..................................50

51. To Count v. Harrach for the purpose of defraying
    the bequests Nos. 51 and 52, I bequeath an
    obligation of 6000 florins at 5 per cent., the
    interest to be disposed of as follows:

    To the widow Aloysia Polzelli, formerly
    singer at Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy's, payable
    in ready money six weeks after my death,................100

    And each year, from the date of my death, for
    her life, the interest of the above capital,............150

    After her death her son, Anton Polzelli, to
    receive 150 florins for one year, having always
    been a good son to his mother and a grateful
    pupil to me. N.B.--I hereby revoke the obligation
    in Italian, signed by me, which may be produced
    by Mdme. Polzelli, otherwise so many of my poor
    relations with greater claims would receive too
    little. Finally, Mdme. Polzelli must be satisfied
    with the annuity of 150 florins. After her death
    the half of the above capital, viz., 3000
    florins, to be divided into two shares--one-half
    (1500) to devolve on the Rohrau family, for the
    purpose of keeping in good order the monument
    erected to me by Count von Harrach, and also
    that of my deceased father at the door of the
    sacristy. The other half to be held in trust by
    the Count, and the annual interest of the sum,
    namely, 45 florins, to be divided between any
    two orphans in Rohrau.

52. To my niece, Anna Lungmayer, payable six weeks
    after my death,..........................................100
    Likewise a yearly annuity to her husband and herself,....150
    All these legacies and obligations, and also
    the proceeds of the sale of my house and legal
    costs, to be paid within one year of my death;
    all the other expenses to be deducted from the
    sum of ready money in the hands of the executors,
    who must account to the heir for the same. On
    their demise this annuity to go to their children
    until they come of age, and after that period the
    capital to be equally divided among them. Of
    the remaining 950 florins, 500 to become the
    property of my beloved Count v. Harrach, as the
    depositary of my last will and testament, and
    300 I bequeath to the agent for his trouble.
    The residue of 150 florins to go to my stepmother,
    and, if she be no longer living, to her
    children. N.B.--Should Mdme. Lungmayer or
    her husband produce any document signed by
    me for a larger sum, I wish it to be understood,
    as in the case of Mdme. Polzelli, that it is to be
    considered null and void, as both Mdme. Lungmayer
    and her husband, owing to my great kindness, lavished
    more than 6000 florins of mine during my life, which
    my own brother and the citizens in Oedenberg and
    Eisenstadt can testify.

(From No. 51 is repeatedly and thickly scored out.)

53. To the widow Theresia Eder and her two daughters,
    lacemakers,...............................................150

54. To my pupil, Anton Polzelli,..............................100

55. To poor blind Adam in Eisenstadt,..........................24

56. To my gracious Prince, my gold Parisian medal and
    the letter that accompanied it, with a humble
    request to grant them a place in the museum at
    Forchtentein.

57. To Mdlle. C. Czeck, waiting-woman to Princess
    Graschalkowitz (erased),.................................1000

58. To Fraulein Anna Bucholz,.................................100
    Inasmuch as in my youth her grandfather lent
    me 150 florins when I greatly needed them,
    which, however, I repaid fifty years ago.

59. To the daughter of the bookkeeper, Kandler, my
    piano, by the organ-builder Schanz.

60. The small Parisian medal to Count v. Harrach, and
    also the bust a l'antique of Herr Grassi.

61. To the widow Wallnerin in Schottenhof,....................100

62. To the Father Prior Leo in Eisenstadt, of the
    "Brothers of Mercy,".......................................50

63. To the Hospital for the Poor in Eisenstadt (erased),.......75

For the ratification of this my last will and testament, I have written it entirely in my own hand, and earnestly beg the authorities to consider it, even if not strictly or properly legal, in the light at least of a codicil, and to do all in their power to make it valid and binding.

JOSEPH HAYDN. May 5, 1801.

Should God call me away suddenly, this my last will and testament, though not written on stamped paper, to be considered valid in law, and the stamps to be repaid tenfold to my sovereign.

In the name of the Holy Trinity. The uncertainty of the period when it may please my Creator, in His infinite wisdom, to call me from time into eternity has caused me, being in sound health, to make my last will with regard to my little remaining property. I commend my soul to my all-merciful Creator; my body I wish to be interred, according to the Roman Catholic forms, in consecrated ground. A first-class funeral. For my soul I bequeath No. 1.

Joseph Haydn

Vienna, Dec. 6, 1801