"weil es eine der Geheimnisse von Rom" : die Mozarts als verhinderte Überbringer von Allegris Miserere by Thomas Hochradner

“…However, only when soon after 1700 the War of Spanish Succession raged and swapped lots of Italian instrumentalists to the German territories, the Italian orchestra style began to dominate, embracing all music with its very specific characters. Thus the Mozarts, when listening to Allegri's famous Miserere in Rome in 1770, must have felt surprised by its Falsobordone setting. …”
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