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which I have forgot the name. He cer- tainly merits all that can be done for him, being one of the few remaining original geniusses of the best school per- haps that Italy ever saw. His composi- tions are always ingenious and natural, and I may add, that he is a good contra- puntist, and a friend to poetry. The first appears by his scores, and the latter by the melodies he sets to words, in which the expression of his music always corresponds with the sense of the author, and often improves it.
His compositions for the church are but little known in England; to me they appear excellent*; for though many of the airs are in the opera stile, yet, upon occasion, he shews himself to be a very able writer in the true church stile, which is grave, with good harmony, good mo- dulation, and fugues well worked.
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