1st Edition
Grétry's Operas and the French Public From the Old Regime to the Restoration
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction
Chapter 1 ‘In the bosom of one’s family’: Grétry’s earliest opéra comiques and their audiences
Chapter 2 ‘If only that heap of erudition could provide us with a melody’: Grétry’s conception of the role and powers of the composer
Chapter 3 ‘Those who listen with a sensitive soul and practised ears’: The formation of musical taste in the Ancien Régime
Chapter 4 ‘Always a friend of liberty’: The fortunes of Grétry’s career and reputation in the Revolution
Chapter 5 ‘The long-dispersed debris of French theatre is being reassembled’: Grétry and his public in post-Revolutionary France
Chapter 6 ‘We are nothing but a single distraught family’: Mourning and mythologising after Grétry’s death
Bibliography
Biography
R.J. Arnold is an associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. His research covers many aspects of the cultural history of France in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, most recently focusing on the formation of musical taste, and the significance of song as a social practice.
