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panies, and sung, or rather chanted, hymns and psalms in canto fermo.
PADUA.
This city has been rendered no less famous, of late years, by the residence of Tartini, the celebrated composer and per- former on the violin, than in ancient times, by having given birth to the great historian Livy. But Tartini died a few months before my arrival here, an event which I regarded as a particular misfor- tune to myself, as well as a loss to the whole musical world; for he was a pro- fessor, whom I was not more desirous to hear perform, than ambitious to converse with.
I visited the street and house where he had lived; the church and grave where he was buried; his bust, his successor, his executor, and every thing, however mi- nute and trivial, which could afford me the least intelligence concerning his life and character, with the zeal of a pilgrim
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