This edition for the first time brings together over a thousand "views" on Haydn's music and its performance belonging to people of different eras - him and our contemporaries, colleagues and friends, fans and ill-wishers. Among the authors of the observations are not only famous musicians - composers, researchers, performers and teachers of various specialties, but also the largest philosophers, writers, painters - only 285 people. The book also contains statements by Haydn himself about himself. A considerable part of this collection of aphorisms and small essays about the composer is published for the first time.