Music in Naples (1771) [ People ]
… famous Neapolitan air, which the common people constantly play at Christmas to the Virgin; this he plays with a drone kind of bag-pipe base, in a very humorous, though delicate manner. But as a solo- player, though his tone is very even … with the different stiles of all the great composers of Europe, past and present, and discriminates very well in speaking of their several merits. To him I communicated my plan, and with him I had a very satisfactory conversation. In …
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