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- ↑ Archivio veneto pubblicazione periodica -1877 Page 464 "... del celebre maestro Mayr, eseguito sopra libretto con poesia italiana, mentre in antecedenza non aveva che posto in musica l'Oratorio latino Iacob a Labano Fugiens, poesia di Giuseppe Foppa, pel Conservatorio dei Mendicanti in Venezia."
- ↑ John Allitt Giovanni Simone Mayr: vita, musica, pensiero 1995 p376 "1793 Ero (cantata per Bianca Sacchetti, l'ultima direttrice dei Mendicanti, testo di Foppa) Sisara (oratorio in due parti per i Mendicanti, testo di Foppa). 1794 Stabat Mater "a quattro" n. 5 Tobia o Tobiae Matrimonium (oratorio in due parti per i Mendicanti, testo in latino e in italiano di Foppa) La Passione (oratorio in ... 1795 David in Spelunca Engaddi (oratorio in due parti per i Mendicanti, testo di Foppa?)
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