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In regards to music in F Sharp minor I found this:

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor (Farewell) 

The story of this symphony has been often told, but it needs
to be repeated because it demonstrates the special relationship 
which Haydn enjoyed with his employer. 

Eszterháza was the summer residence of Prince Nikolaus and his 
family but the irregular home base of the court at Eisenstadt 
provided the living quarters for the musicians wives and families. 
When the court stayed longer than expected at Eszterhá,za in 1772, 
the musicians became restless. Haydn was asked to argue their cause, 
and did so musically by writing a final movement to this symphony 
in which the musicians gradually cease playing, and leave, blowing out 
their candles as they depart, with only the first two violinists -Haydn and 
his leader Tomasini- remaining at the close. 

The point was taken, and the court arranged to leave for Eisenstadt. 
But more remarkable is the fact that Haydn managed to integrate this 
touching finale into a work of the greatest seriousness and scope. The 
opening F sharp minor movement is as rugged and unexpected a 
movement as he ever wrote, and its construction is very unusual: there is 
one real melody, which James Webster has identified as an ancestor of the 
consciously beautiful tunes of Haydn's later years, but it occurs only in the 
development section. For the rest, turbulent insistence and jagged
syncopation's 
mark the music's progress, with some complex modulations: Haydn 
instructed his copyist to take care with the Latin tag "Sapienti pauca". 

There are further harmonic surprises in the A major slow movement, played 
with mutes, which Haydn takes into the realms of B sharp minor (writing 
the passage partly in C minor to avoid confusion). Syncopation is again a 
feature of the brighter Minuet in F sharp major, relaxing in the Trio to a
melody 
which may allude to Gregorian chant, and the fast opening of the Finale
creates 
a tempestuous fury before suddenly giving way to the "Farewell" adagio. 



ok and here's what i found on the Latin phrase

Sapienti Pauca

Sapienti = taste of; understand; have sense  or
	  wise, judicious; discreet

I think the first one is closer.


Pauca    = little; few (pl.); very few; just a few


Anyhow, enjoy scholarly scholars!


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