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R.J. Arnold, Grétry’s Operas and the French Public From the Old Regime to the Restoration (Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2016). 244 pp. £95.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2017

Jonathan Huff
Jonathan Huff*
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , April 2019 , pp. 89 - 93
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References

1 Charlton, David, Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-comique, paperback ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1986] 2010): ixGoogle Scholar.

2 Bouilly, Jean-Nicholas, Mes Récapitulations, 3 vols (Paris: Louis Janet, 1836–37): vol. III, 129Google Scholar.

3 Ellis, Katherine, Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995): 33–55CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 The most likely reason for this interpretation is that the author perceives the period after 1795 to be differentiated by ‘a desire for stability, noted … as a principal aspect of political culture in the later 1790s’. This neatly fits his framework for a ‘marked and growing taste for music that had a comforting, familiar, or nostalgic appeal (p. 141)’, but would benefit from a more nuanced discussion of chronology.

5 Grétry, A.E.M., Mémoires, ou essais sur la musique, ed. J.H. Mees, 2nd ed. (Brussels: Aug. Wahlen, Librairie-imprimerie de la cour, 1829): vol II, xiv–xvGoogle Scholar.