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or two ago, the author of such a composition would have had a statue erected to his honour; but now, it would be equally difficult to find 16 people who would hear it with patience, as that number of good singers, in any one place, to perform it. Besides vocal parts in this mass, there is a part for the organ, often on a regular subject, different from the rest: the ground-work, upon which all is built, is canto fermo; and in some of the movements, this canto fermo is made a subject of imitation, and runs through all the parts. Upon the whole, it must be allowed, that this work, which con- sists of many different movements, and is of a very considerable length, though it may be thought by some to require more patience than genius to accomplish, seems sufficient to have employed a long life in composing, and to entitle the au- thor to great praise and admiration.
During this visit, which was my last to Signor Santarelli, he and his brethren
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