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Upon which, in great wrath, he sent
an express to his Holiness, with a com-
plaint against the Maestro di Capella,
which occasioned his immediate disgrace,
and dismission from the service of the
papal chapel; and in so great a degree
was the Pope offended at the supposed
imposition of his composer, that, for a
long time, he would neither see him,
nor hear his defence; however, at length,
the poor man got one of the cardinals to
plead his cause, and to acquaint his
Holiness, that the stile of singing in his
chapel, particularly in performing the
Miserere, was such as could not be ex-
pressed by notes, nor taught or transmitted
to any other place, but by example; for
which reason the piece in question, though
faithfully transcribed, must fail in its
effect, when performed elsewhere.
His Holiness did not understand music,
and could hardly comprehend how the
same notes should sound so differently in
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