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Beloved Friend: Among the rest of Haydn's chamber music, the more than 40 trios for piano, violin, and cello deserve mention. The G-Major Trio, with its fiery rondo-finale "all'Ongarese," is a general favorite. Haydn also wrote more than 50 sonatas for the piano, of which the last four, composed in the 1790's, are the most important. Also notable are his poignant piano variations in F Minor, written on the death of a beloved friend.
The picture was painted on the same day that he received news of the death of his old friend Julio Gonzalez, a fellow sculptor who used to join him in many of his experiments in Boisgeloup. There are two ways in which suffering appears to be taken for granted in this painting: his grief over his friend's death and his despair of the times unite in a cheerless memento mori that could not have been formulated more desperately by any of the Christians of the Middle Ages.
He was elected president of the General Assembly in September 1949. Resigning his delegate post in 1953, he served eight years as ambassador to the United States. In May 1962 General Romulo assumed the presidency of the University of the Philippines. Among his works are Mother America (1943), Crusade in Asia (1955), and Friend to Friend (1958).
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