Charles Burney

The Present State of Music in France and Italy (2nd, corrected edition)

London: T. Becket and Co., 1773

Rome

the two choirs were performed, which
had a very fine effect. The service was
in the large canonical, or winter chapel
on the left, in which is the largest organ
of St. Peter's church*.

Cardinal York said mass likewise in the
morning, when there was a great congre-
gation.

At night I went to the oratorio of
Jonathan, at the Chiesa Nuova; but
not being either well set or well sung, I
quitted that performance at the end of the
first part, in order to hear another at the
church of St. Girolamo della Carità,
which had only three characters in it;
this oratorio was called the Judgment of
Solomon: the tenor singer in it was ad-
mirable; he had great taste, and a very
uncommon facility of execution; a eu-
nuch likewise, who performed the part