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Memoirs Of The Celebrated Farinelli.
MEMOIRS OF THE CELEBRATED FARINELLI .
FARINELLI , whose real name was Carlo Broschi , was born at Naples in 1705 ; he had his first musical education from his father Signor Broschi , and afterwards was under Porpora , who travelled with him ; he was seventeenyears of age when he left that city to go to Rome , where , during the run of ' an opera , there was a struggle every niht between him anda famous layeron the trumpet
g p , in a song accompanied by that instrument : this at first seemed amicable and merely sportive , till the audience began to interest themselves in the contest , and to fake different sides : after severally swelling out a note , in which each manifested the power of his lungs , and tried to rival the other in brilliancy and force , they had both a swell and a shake together by thirds , which was continued so long , while
the audience eagerly waited the event , that both seemed to he exhausted ; and in fact , the trumpeter , wholly spent , gave it up ; thinking , however , his antagonist as much tired as himself , and that it would be a drawn battle ; when Farinelli , with a smile on his countenance shewing he had only been sporting with him all this time , broke out all at once in the same breath with fresh vi and not
gour , only swelled and shook the note , but ran the most rapid and difficult divisions , and was at last silenced only by the acclamations of the audience . From this period may be dated that superiority which he ever maintained overall hiscotempbraries .
From Rome he went to Bologna , where he had the advantage of hearing Bernacchi ( a scholar of the famous Pistocco , of that city ) who was then the first singer in Italy , for taste and knowledge ; and his scholars afterwards rendered the Bologna school famous ^—From thence he went to Venice , and from Venice to Vienna ; i « which cities his powers were regarded as miraculous , but he told
me that at Vienna , where he was three different times , and where he received great honours from the Emperor Charles VI " . an admonition from that Prince was of more service to him than all the precepts of his masters , or examples of his competitors of fame : His Imperial Majesty condescended to tell him one day , with great mildness and affability , that in his singing
he neither moved nor stood still like any other mortal ; all was supernatural . " Those gigantic strides , ( said he ) those never " ending note ' s and passages ( ces notes qui nefinissent jamais ) only " surprize , audit is now rime for you to please ; you are too " lavish of the gifts with which nature hath endowed you ; if you " wish to reach the heart must take a more lain and simple
, you p " road . " Those few words brought about an entire change in his manner of singing : from this time lie mixed the pathetic with the spirited , the simple with the sublime ; and by these means delighted as well as astonished every hearer .
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Memoirs Of The Celebrated Farinelli.
MEMOIRS OF THE CELEBRATED FARINELLI .
FARINELLI , whose real name was Carlo Broschi , was born at Naples in 1705 ; he had his first musical education from his father Signor Broschi , and afterwards was under Porpora , who travelled with him ; he was seventeenyears of age when he left that city to go to Rome , where , during the run of ' an opera , there was a struggle every niht between him anda famous layeron the trumpet
g p , in a song accompanied by that instrument : this at first seemed amicable and merely sportive , till the audience began to interest themselves in the contest , and to fake different sides : after severally swelling out a note , in which each manifested the power of his lungs , and tried to rival the other in brilliancy and force , they had both a swell and a shake together by thirds , which was continued so long , while
the audience eagerly waited the event , that both seemed to he exhausted ; and in fact , the trumpeter , wholly spent , gave it up ; thinking , however , his antagonist as much tired as himself , and that it would be a drawn battle ; when Farinelli , with a smile on his countenance shewing he had only been sporting with him all this time , broke out all at once in the same breath with fresh vi and not
gour , only swelled and shook the note , but ran the most rapid and difficult divisions , and was at last silenced only by the acclamations of the audience . From this period may be dated that superiority which he ever maintained overall hiscotempbraries .
From Rome he went to Bologna , where he had the advantage of hearing Bernacchi ( a scholar of the famous Pistocco , of that city ) who was then the first singer in Italy , for taste and knowledge ; and his scholars afterwards rendered the Bologna school famous ^—From thence he went to Venice , and from Venice to Vienna ; i « which cities his powers were regarded as miraculous , but he told
me that at Vienna , where he was three different times , and where he received great honours from the Emperor Charles VI " . an admonition from that Prince was of more service to him than all the precepts of his masters , or examples of his competitors of fame : His Imperial Majesty condescended to tell him one day , with great mildness and affability , that in his singing
he neither moved nor stood still like any other mortal ; all was supernatural . " Those gigantic strides , ( said he ) those never " ending note ' s and passages ( ces notes qui nefinissent jamais ) only " surprize , audit is now rime for you to please ; you are too " lavish of the gifts with which nature hath endowed you ; if you " wish to reach the heart must take a more lain and simple
, you p " road . " Those few words brought about an entire change in his manner of singing : from this time lie mixed the pathetic with the spirited , the simple with the sublime ; and by these means delighted as well as astonished every hearer .