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[ Rochlitz (Für Freunde d. Tonk., II., p. 284), highly coloured as usual.]
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[ On Holy Thursday, the Misereres of Anerio, Naldini, and Scarlatti were performed in turns, until in 1714 Bai's Miserere displaced them. Since 1821 Allegri's Miserere has only been sung once. Baini, Mem. Stor. Crit., II., p. 195. Kandler, G. Pierluigi da Palestrina, p. 96.]
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[ Cf. Burney's more critical account (Reise, I., p. 203) and Mendelssohn's (Reise-briefe, pp. 122, 163).]
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[ So at least it was said; but Burney says that the Pope had copies made for the Emperor Leopold, the King of Portugal, and Padre Martini, and that the Papal kapellmeister, Santarelli, gave him a copy, which he had printed in London, 1771 (Reise, I., pp. 202, 208): he heard it again in Florence, and was offered a copy. In face of these statements, Baini's assurance (Cäcilia, II., p. 69) that no copy or score of the Miserere had ever been made, must be held to be exaggerated.]
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[ Metastasio declares (Lett., I., p. 99) that the Miserere, which had thrown him into ecstasies in Rome, made no impression at all in Vienna, performed by singers who were secondo il corrente stilo eccellentissimi.]