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third lower at pleasure, without the em- barrassment of different notes or clefs, real or imaginary.
Among the Dilettanti here, besides Count Taxis, there is a noble Venetian, Signor Giovanni Cornaro, remarkable for his genius and skill in composition: he had composed a mass for a great festival at a church in Padua, which was performed there, while I was at Venice, with an im- mense band of voices and instruments.
This evening, in order to make my- self more fully acquainted with the na- ture of the conservatorios, and to finish my musical enquiries here, I obtained permission to be admitted into the music school of the Mendicanti, and was fa- voured with a concert, which was per- formed wholly on my account, and lasted two hours, by the best vocal and instr- umental performers of this hospital: it was really curious to see, as well as to hear every part of this excellent concert, per- formed by female violins, hautbois,
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