How old was the Sistine chapel when it fell ?
Around Easter 1914 he met the Viennese musicologist Franz Haböck , author of the extremely important book " Die Kastraten und ihre Gesangskunst " ( The Castrati and their Art of Singing , published in Berlin in 1927 ) , who had plans to cast Moreschi in concerts reviving the repertoire of the great eighteenth - century castrato Farinelli .