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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
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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.