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Rh He does not like the Italian masters:

Nor has he any love for Italian singers; above all, he detests the voices of the castrati. He acknowledges only the excellent time and the consummate experience of these artists; but in the matter of taste they remain alien to him and he does not attempt to understand them.

Still less does he care for the contemporary English school, the school of Cooke, which will at a later date produce Pelham Humphrey, Wise, Blow, and Purcell:

Nor is he any fonder of French music: