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and mafterly execution, before he was fix years old ar- 
rived at fuch knowledge in raufic, that his extemporary 
performance on keyed inftruments, like mozart's, was 
lo mafterly in point of invention, modulation, and accu- 
racy of execution, as to furpafs, in many particulars, the 
attainments of moft profeffors at any period of their 
lives. 
Indeed mozart, when little more than four years old, 
is faid to have been “ not only capable of executing lef- 
“ fons on his favourite inftrument, the harpfichord, but 
“ to have compofed fome in an eafy ftyle and tafte, which 
“ were much approved^:” andsAMUEL westley before 
he could write was a compofer, and mentally fet the airs 
of feveral oratorios, which he retained in memory till 
he was eight years old, and then wrote them down. 
Here the difference of education appears: little 
crotch, left to nature, has not only been without in- 
ftrudlions but good models of imitation; while mozart 
and samuel westley, on the contrary, may be faid to 
have been nurfed in good raufic; for as the latter had 
.his brothers excellent performance to ftimulate atten- 
tion, and feed his ear with harmony; the German infant, 
living in the houfe of his father, an eminent profefl.br, 
(e) See Phil. Tranf. vol. LX. for the year 1 7 70 ; an account of a very re- 
markable young mufician, by the honourable daines Barrington, f. r.s. 
who foon intends to favour the public with an account of the two westleys. 
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