Grétry's Operas and the French Public: From the Old Regime to the Restoration

Contents

• Table of contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 'In the bosom of one's family': Gretry's earliest opera comiques and their audiences
• Chapter 2 'If only that heap of erudition could provide us with a melody': Gretry'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 Regime
• Chapter 4 'Always a friend of liberty': The fortunes of Gretry's career and reputation in the Revolution
• Chapter 5 'The long-dispersed debris of French theatre is being reassembled': Gretry and his public in post-Revolutionary France
• Chapter 6 'We are nothing but a single distraught family': Mourning and mythologising after Gretry's death
• Bibliography