The old passion for ruling and influencing was all alive and happy.
Nor is there anything which tends more to discredit and frustrate the better means of influencing conduct, than a resort to the worse.
With Mozart, whose life-work began after, but ended before that of Haydn, influencing and being influenced by the latter, the symphony broadened in scope and grew richer in warmth of melodious expression, definiteness of plan and completeness of form.