Tako Oda wrote :
<< It is true that countertenors had been almost completely eclipsed by the
castrati between Handel -> Mozart. That was a relatively short period.>>
Thank you for the answer, and for the quote in another post. You or the
person you quoted (I don't remember) wrote that Monteverdi was the first to
use castratti, while Gabrieli was happy with countertenors. Do you know
where the idea of castratting children came from? Accident? Experiment?...
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