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How on earth did Chailly find time to compose? Yet he did, and prolifically. A steady stream of works poured from him -- more than a hundred substantial works in all. He composed in almost every medium, setting D'Annunzio and Savonarola, Simonides (Lamento di Danae) and Catullus (the Tre liriche latine), and penning an orchestral Mass (in mid-career he retained affiliations with the Catholic church, though latterly abandoned them) for Giovanni Battista Montini, the newly elected Pope Paul VI, who at the time of his election was Cardinal Archbishop of Milan. Chailly presented a copy of the Mass to the new Pope in person [listen -- Benedictus (Missa Papae Pauli, extract)].

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