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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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