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Mozart in this companion, as I have already ftated that he was a 

 compofer when he did not much exceed the age of four. 



His extemporary compoiitions alfo, of which I was a witnefs, 

 prove his genius and invention to have been moft aftonifliing ; leaft 

 however I mould infenfibly become too ftrongly his panegyrift, 

 permit me to fubfcribe myfelf, Sir, 



Your moQ. faithful humble fervant, 



D.A1NES BaRRINGT-OK. 



Jan. 2.1, 1780. 



O N this republication of what appeared in the LXth volume of 

 the Philofophical Tranfactions, it maybe right to add, that Mozart 

 (though a German) hath been honoured by the pope with an 

 order of merit called the Golden Spur, and hath compofed operas 

 in feveral parts of Italy. I have alfo been favoured by D. Buraey 

 with the following account of one of his lateft compositions. 



"Mozart being at Paris, in 1778, compofed for Tend ucci a 

 " fcene in 14 parts, chiefly obligati ; viz. two violins, two te- 

 " nors, -one chromatic horn, one oboe, two clarinets, a Piano 

 44 forte, a Soprano voice part, with -two hornSj and a bafe di 

 44 rinforza. 



" It is a very elaborate and mafterly compoiition , difcovering 

 6t a great practice and facility of writing in many parts. The 

 61 modulation islikewife learned and recherch.ee ; however, though 

 44 it is a compofition which none but a great mafter of harmony, 

 44 and poffelle.d of a confummate knowledge of the genius of dif- 

 44 ferent inftruments, could produce ; yet neither the melody of 

 44 the voice part, nor of any one of the inftruments, difcovers 

 44 much invention, though the effects of the whole, if well exc- 

 ^ cuted, would, doubtlefs, be mafterly and pleafmg." 



