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music; has made, by way of study, an abridgment of the modulation of Palestri- ni, which is well selected and digested; and he shewed me a considerable part of a musical treatise, in manuscript, written by himself.
At Rome I also had frequent conver- sations with Rinaldo di Capua, an old and excellent Neapolitan composer. He is the natural son of a person of very high rank in that country, and at first only studied music as an accomplishment; but being left by his father with only a small fortune, which was soon dissipated, he was forced to make it his profession. He was but seventeen when he composed his first opera at Vienna. I have often re- ceived great pleasure from his composi- tions; he is not in great fashion at pre- sent, those [sic] he composed an intermezzo for the Capranica theatre at Rome, last winter, which had great success. He is very intelligent in conversation; but, though a good-natured man, his opinions are ra-
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