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but he sins more on the side of genius
than learning, as his harmony is good,
and modulation regular and warrantable;
yet I must own, that his music is to me
tiresome, and leaves behind it a languor
and dissatisfaction; whereas that of Ga-
luppi and Sacchini always exhilarates and
enlivens. Signor Nazari played here a
concerto on the violin in a very neat
and pleasing manner, I know not of whose
composition, but it was by no means
remarkable for novelty.
After dinner I went to the church of
Santa Maria Maggiore to see some pic-
tures, and stumbled on music, but such
music as I did not think it possible for
the people of Italy to bear. The organ
was out of tune, other instruments out of
time, and the voices were both; then the
composition seemed just such stuff as a
boy who was learning counter-point
would produce after the first two or three
lessons. After I had seen the two best
pictures in the church, the famous St.
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