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Though he composed ample sacred music in his capacity as maestro di cappella at the Basilica San Marco, in Venice, he never published another complete Vespers.

In 1793 he became maestro di cappella at St Peter’s, Rome.

In 1804 he had succeeded Guglielmi as Maestro di Cappella of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Here he quickly began to display an extraordinary talent and precocity, his first musical training being received at the hands of Antonio Ripa, and continued under Juan Almarcha, who succeeded Ripa as Maestro di Cappella at the cathedral.

Some eighteen months later, just before the Garcia family left for Paris, he succeeded Paisiello as Maestro di Cappella at the Neapolitan Cathedral; and these two positions he continued to hold until his death at the age of eighty-five.