 The wound turned gangrenous, but Lully refused to have his toe amputated and the infection spread, resulting in his death on 22 March.Different eyewitnesses to the premiere performance of Joseph Haydn's Creation in April of 1798 indicate that Haydn used a baton to conduct with his hands.Said Princess Eleanor von Liechtenstein, "Hayden ["sic"] gave the tempo with his two hands;" and wrote a Swedish relative of Franz Berwald, "on a higher level stood Haydn himself with his baton."