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different places; however, he ordered his Maestro di Capella to write down his defence, in order to be fent to Vienna, which was done; and the Emperor, see- ing no other way of gratifying his wishes with respect to this composition, begged of the Pope, that some of the musicians in the service of his Holiness, might be sent to Vienna, to instruct those in the service of his chapel how to perform the Miserere of Allegri, in the same expressive manner as in the Sistine chapel at Rome, which was granted. But, before they ar- rived, a war broke out with the Turks, which called the Emperor from Vienna; and the Miserere has never yet, perhaps, been truly performed, but in the Pope's chapel.
I visited several times, while I was at Rome, Signor Mazzanti, who not only sings with exquisite taste, but is likewise an excellent musician. He is both a reader and a writer on the subject of music, as well as a considerable collector
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