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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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