When Joseph Haydn went to England, he toured the country and was hosted by musicians wherever he went.

In Bath he stayed with Mr Rauzzini, a very famous musician who was one of the greatest singers of his time.

Rauzzini’s beloved dog Turk and died and been buried in a tomb in the garden with the inscription: “Turk was a faithful dog and not a man”.

Haydn enjoyed writing canons, short musical works, where, like rounds, each successive voice comes in a bar or two later with the same melody, so he wrote a simple four part canon using those words, which Rauzzini later added to the dog’s epitaph.