The Vatican forbade copying Allegri's Miserere, but 14-year-old Mozart wrote it down from memory.

1770

His father said one hearing in the Sistine Chapel in 1770 was enough.

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• Mozart writes down Allegri's Miserere1770 · Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Gregorio Allegri's Miserere was sung in the Sistine Chapel in Holy Week, and copying the score was forbidden. In 1770, as his father told it, 14-year-old Mozart heard it once and wrote it all down from memory. Soon after, the pope made him a knight of the Golden Spur.

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