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me the honour to give me a copy, against some remarks made upon his Trat- tato di Musica, by M. Rousseau, in his Dict. de Musique. This nobleman, though young, seems to possess great musical eru- dition; to have profited from the converse and correspondence of Tartini, and to be an enthusiast for the arts in general. I had great pleasure in his conversation, during which I communicated to him my plan of a History of Music, and was pleased and enlightened by his ob- servations.
In the afternoon I stopped a little while at the new church of the Gesuati, where I heard the organ played with a very un- common brilliancy of execution, by one of the Dominicans. It was indeed a stile of playing more suitable to the harp- sichord than organ, but, in its way, was very masterly and powerful. There are some reed stops in this instrument which I had never heard before, and with which the performer produced effects that I was
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