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sound harmony, and regular modulation, had infinite merit.
Laudate Pueri was composed by Signor Bernardo Ottani, another scholar of Padre Martini, who is young, and a promising composer. There were many ingenious pretty things in his performance, as well as in that which followed, which was a hymn by Don Francesco Orsoni, a young priest, and scholar likewise of Padre Martini.
The whole was concluded by the Mag- nificat of Signor Antonio Mazzoni, second master of the duomo or cathedral, who is composer to the opera here, and has been in that character at Naples, Madrid, and Petersbourg. He is said to have great fire and fancy, but in this performance, which was all chorus, they were not dis- coverable; the whole was founded upon a ground-base, which was played by all the instruments, and seemed laboured and constrained.
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