This canon was written in 1791; it was presented by Haydn to the University at his doctoral degree ceremony at Oxford University on 8 July. You really need a score to follow the intricate parts which actually fit onto a small scrap of paper - the extant original manuscript is printed in Robbins Landon’s biography Volume 4 (Haydn in England). The music can be read and sung, forwards or backwards, then turned upside down and again read forwards and backwards; you can then go forwards and/or backwards, right way up, or upside down, and all together - but everything always fits. If you couldn’t follow the last sentence, in short - it is very clever.
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