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himself and Padre Martini, may perhaps for the present, gratify in some measure, the curiosity of the reader.
Carlo Broschi, called Farinelli, was born at Naples in 1705; he had his first mu- sical education from his father, Signor Broschi, and afterwards was under Por- pora, who travelled with him; he was seventeen when he left that city to go to Rome, where, during the run of an opera, there was a struggle every night between him and a famous player on the trumpet, in a song accompanied by that instrument: this, at first, seemed ami- cable and merely sportive, till the audi- ence began to interest themselves in the contest, and to take different sides: after severally swelling out a note, in which each manifested the power of his lungs, and tried to rival the other in brilliancy and force, they had both a swell and a shake together, by thirds, which was continued so long, while the audience eagerly waited the event, that
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