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Signor Galuppi was a scholar of the fa- mous Lotti, and very early taken notice of as a good harpsichord player, and a genius in composition.
He was so obliging as to present me to Signora Galuppi; to shew me his house; an admirable picture of a sleeping child, by P. Veronese, which has been long in his wife's family; and to carry me into his working-room, with only a little clavichord in it, where, he told me, he dirtied paper. His family has been very large, but all his children, except three or four, are now well married. He has the appearance of a regular family man, and is esteemed at Venice as much for his private character as for his public talents. He seems, however, rather hurt at the encouragement and protection which some ecclesiastical dunces, among whom is F----, meet with as composers here. Indeed, except Sacchini, his second, he stands so high among the present race of musicians in Venice, that he seems a
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