“The musical heyday of Venice came in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the city was losing its political grip, and becoming instead a metropolis of grace and pleasure. The first madrigal was performed in Venice, and the first Italian opera. Four celebrated conservatoires flourished, and seven active opera houses, and great families even had their private organists. In the great cathedral of St. Mark, where Monteverdi was once choirmaster, six separate orchestras were sometimes assembled, in different parts of the church, for the performance of an oratorio.”—John Morris, speaking in the 8.8. C. Home Service about the musical history of Venice.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29368, 22 November 1960, Page 25
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