DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

HAYM HAYM 371
Magdalen College, Oxford. He graduated at
Oxford as Mus.B. July S, 1735. On Jan. 14,
1742, he succeeded Richard Goodaon as Professor
of Music in the University. On the opening of
the Radclitl'e Library Hayes directed the per-
I'ormance, and was on that occasion created
Doctor of Music, April 14, 1749. In 1763 Dr.
Hayes became a competitor for the p)rizes then
first offered by the Catch Club, and obtained
three for his canons, ' Alleluja ' and ' Miserere
nobis,' and his glee, ' Melting airs soft joys in-
spire. ' He conducted the music at the Gloucester
Festival in 1757, 1760, and 1763. His com-
positions comprise ' Twelve Ariettes or Ballads
and Two Cantatas,' 1735 ;
' Collins's Ode on the
Passions ' ;
' Vocal and Instrumental Music con-
taining, I. TheOvertureandSongsintheMasque
of Circe ; II. A Sonata or Trio, and Ballads,
Airs, and Cantatas ; III. An Ode, being jiart of
an Exercise performed for a Baclielor's Degree in
Music,' 1742; 'Catches, Glees, and Canons';
' Cathedral Music ' (Services and Anthems edited
by his son Philip Hayes), 1795 ;
'Instrumental
Accompaniments to the Old Hundredth Psalm,
'
for the Sons of the Clergy ;
' and Sixteen Psalms
from Men'ick's Version.' He was author of
Memarks on Mr. Amscm's Essay on Musical
Expression, 1762. He died at Oxford, July 27,
1777, and was buried in the Churchyard of St.
Peter in the East. [His portrait, by F. Cornish,
is in the !Music Scliool at Oxford.]
William Hayes, ju>r. , third son of the above,
was born in 1741, and on June 27, 1749, was
admitted a chorister of Magdalen College. He
resigned in 1751. He matriculated from Jlagdalen
Hall, July 16, 1757, graduated as B.A.
April 7, 1761, M.A. Jan. 15, 1764, was admitted
a clerk of Magdalen College, July 6, 1764, and
resigned in 1765 on obtaining a minor canonry
in Worcester CatViedral. On Jan. 14, 1766, he
was appointed minor canon of St. Paul's Cathedral,
and made 'junior cardinal ' in 1783. He
was also Vicar of Tillingham, Essex. He died
Oct. 22, 1790. In May 1765 he contributed to
the Gentleman s Maz/azin^ a paper entitled,
' Rules necessary to be observed by all Cathedral
Singers in this Kingdom.' w. ii. H. Correc-
tions, etc., by Dr. "W. H. Cummings, Mr. J. F. R.
Stainer, and from Erit. Mus. Eiog.
HAYM, NicOLO FiiAscESCO, born about 1679
at Rome, of German parents, came to England
in 1 704. A little later, he engaged with Clayton
and Dieupart in an attempt to establish Italian
opera in London ; and played the principal
violoncello in Clayton's 'Arsinoe.' 'Camilla'
(adapted from Buononeini, to a libretto by Owen
MacSwiney) was Haj'ni's first opera, produced
Thomyris
at Drury Lane, April 30, 1706. His next performances
were the alteration of Buononcini's
' for the stage, and the arrangement
'
of ' Pyrrhus and Demetrius ' [see NicoLiNi],
which, in his cop)^ of his agreement (in the
writer's possession), lie calls ' my
opera,' though
in reality composed by A. Scarlatti.' For the
latter he received £300 from Rich, while he was
paid regularly for playing in the orchestra, and
bargained for a separate agreement for every new
opera he should arrange or import. The principal
parts in ' Pyrrhus and Demetrius ' were sung by
some of the performers in Italian, and by the rest
in English ; but this absurd manner of representing
a drama was not peculiar to England.
These operas continued to run from 1709 to 1711,
and in the latter year his ' ' Etearco was produced
; but the arrival of Handel seems to have
put Haj'm to flight. In Nos. 258 and 278 of the
Spectator, for Dec. 26, 1711, and Jan. 18, 1712,
are two letters, signed by Clayton, Haym, and
Dieupart, in which they protest against the new
style of music, and solicit patronage for their
concerts at Clayton's house in York Buildings.
Haymwas ready, however, to take either side, and
in 1 7 1 3 he reappears as the author of the libretto
of Handel's 'Teseo, ' a ]iosition which he filled
again in 'Radamisto,' ' Ottone,' 'Flavio,' 'Giulio
Cesare,' 'Tamerlano,' 'Rodelinda,' 'Siroe,'
'Coriolano,' and
'Tolomeo,' etc., for Handel ;
' Vespasiano, ' for Ariosti ;
' and Calfiirnia ' and
' Astianatte, ' for Buononeini. He seems to have
been nomore particular about claiming the words
for he claims the book
than the music of others ;
of ' Siroe,' though it is the work of Metastasio
(see Burney, iv. 329). His merit as a musician,
however, entitled him to better encouragement
than he received ; he published two sets of
Sonatas for two violins and a bass, which show
him to have been an able master, and his talent
for dramatic music may be appreciated from an
air printed by Sir J. Hawkins in his Histm'y
Lord is King,'
(chap. 174), [An anthem, ' The
and a ' Dixit Dominus ' are in MS. in the Fitzwilliam
Museum at Cambridge. The former is
certainly, the latter probably, by him.]
Hayni was a connoisseur of medals. He published
'II Tesoro delle Medaglie antiche,' two
vols. Italian and Englisli, 4to, 1719-20. He also
wrote ' ' Merope and 'Demodice,' two tragedies ;
andpublisbeda fine edition of the 'Gierusalemme
Liberata ' of Tasso, and a ' Notizia de' Libri rari
Italian!' (1726), a useful book. Hawkins tells
us (as above) that be also had the intention of
printing a History of Music on a large scale, the
prospectus of which he published about 1729.
He had written it in Italian, and designed to
translate it into English, but relinquished the
sclieme for want of support. It must not be
omitted, that we owe to the pencil of Haym the
only known portraits of our great early English
masters, Tallis and Byrd, engraved by G. Vander
Gucht, perhaps for the projected History of Music.
The two portraits are on one plate, of which only
one impression is known to exist. On abandoning
the musical prol'ession, he became a collector
of pictures, from two of which he probably
1 Haym composed for this, it is true, a new overture and sevenj
additioDaJ songs, which have coiisiderahle merit.