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infpired, but that I might a(k him whether he was 
in humour for fuch a com poll tion. 
Happening to know that little Mozart was much 
taken notice of by Manzoli, the famous linger, who 
came over to England in 1764, I faid to the bov r 
that 1 fhould be glad to hear an extemporary Love 
Song, fuch as his friend Manzoli might choofe in an 
opera. 
The hoy on this (who continued to fit at his 
harplichord) looked back with much archnefs, and. 
immediately began five or fix lines of a jargon reci- 
tative proper to introduce a love fong. 
He then played a fymphony which might corre- 
fpond with an air compofed to the lingle word,. 
Ajfetto. 
It had a fir ft and fecond part, which, together with 
the fymphonies, was of the length that opera longs 
generally laft : if this extemporary compofition was 
not amazingly capital, yet it was really above medio- 
crity, and (hewed moft extraordinary rendinefs of 
invention. 
Finding that he was in humour, and as it were 
infpired, I then defired him to compofe a Song of- 
Rnge, fuch as might be proper for the opera ftage. 
The boy again looked back with much archnefs, 
and began five or fix lines of a jargon recitative 
proper to precede a Song of Anger. 
This lalted alfo about the fame time with the Song 
of Love ; and in the middle of it, he had worked 
himlelf up to fuch a pitch, that he beat his harpfi- 
chord like a perfon poilefTed, rifing lbmetimes in his 
chair. 
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