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growth, yet it is very well supplied from other places; for, besides the performers above mentioned, Signor Campioni is settled here, as maestro di Capella to the grand duke; Signor Dottel, the celebrat- ed performer on the German flute, is of his band, and Signor Nardini is engaged here, as principal violin, in the service of the same prince *.
I heard likewise in this city a good per- former on the double harp, Signora Anna Fond, from Vienna, who is in the service of the court; and my little countryman, Linley, who had been two years under Signor Nardini, was at Florence when I arrived there, and was universally admired. The Tommasino, as he is called, and the little Mozart, are talked of all over Italy, as the most promising geniusses of this age.
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