Editing Pope Clement XIV (section)

===Mozart===
Pope Clement XIV and the customs of the Catholic Church in Rome are described in letters of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] and of his father [[Leopold Mozart]], written from Rome in April and May 1770 during their tour of Italy. Leopold found the upper clergy offensively haughty, but was received, with his son, by the pope, where Wolfgang demonstrated an amazing feat of musical memory. The papal chapel was famous for performing a ''[[Miserere (Allegri)|Miserere mei, Deus]]'' by the 17th-century composer [[Gregorio Allegri]], whose music was not to be copied outside of the chapel on pain of [[excommunication]]. The 14-year-old Wolfgang was able to transcribe the composition in its entirety after a single hearing. Clement made the young Mozart a knight of the [[Order of the Golden Spur]].<ref>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ''Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters'', transl. Robert Spaethling, (W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 2000), 17.</ref>

Similarly, in 1774 German composer, [[Georg Joseph Vogler]] was also made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Spur.<ref name="Chisholm">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Vogler, Georg Joseph|volume=28|pages=171–172}}</ref>