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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/My mother bids me bind my hair

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From volume 2 of the work.

1717902A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — My mother bids me bind my hairGeorge GroveGeorge Grove


MY MOTHER BIDS ME BIND MY HAIR. One of the most favourite of Haydn's 12 Canzonets. The words were originally written by Mrs. Hunter to the andante of a sonata by Pleyel. The stanzas were reversed by Haydn, so that the present first verse was originally the second.

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