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2026ref. LRB528755Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Langue : Français. Environ 580 pages. Français : Réimpression à la demande. Édition originale : 1789. Ouvrage majeur d'André Ernest Modeste Grétry compositeur et théoricien ces mémoires abordent la musique sous un angle personnel esthétique et pratique. L'ouvrage intéresse autant l'histoire de la musique du XVIIIe siècle que la réflexion sur l'art lyrique la composition et le goût musical à la veille de la Révolution. Major work by André Ernest Modeste Grétry composer and theorist this memoir-essay approaches music from a personal aesthetic and practical perspective. It is of interest to readers of eighteenth-century music history opera composition and musical taste on the eve of the French Revolution. Images du livre non contractuelles English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1789. This modern reproduction of Mémoires ou Essai sur la musique by Grétry André Ernest Modeste 1741-1813 makes an old or rare text available for consultation bibliographic research and specialized collections. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026ref. LRB139492Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Langue : Français. Environ 717 pages. Français : Réimpression à la demande. Édition originale : 1789. Source majeure pour l'étude de la pensée musicale française à la fin du XVIIIe siècle cet ouvrage rassemble les réflexions d'André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry sur la composition musicale l'expression dramatique et l'esthétique du théâtre lyrique. Il présente un intérêt particulier pour l'histoire de l'opéra la pratique de la composition et les observations personnelles de l'auteur l'un des compositeurs de premier plan de son époque. Images du livre non contractuelles English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1789. Major source for the study of French musical thought at the end of the eighteenth century this work brings together André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's reflections on musical composition dramatic expression and the aesthetics of lyric theatre. It is of particular interest for the history of opera the practice of composition and the author's personal observations as a leading composer of his time. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026ref. LRB20000794Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Langue : Français. Environ 584 pages. Français : Réimpression à la demande. Édition originale : 1789. Ouvrage majeur d'André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry compositeur et théoricien qui propose à la fois des souvenirs personnels et une réflexion sur l'art musical à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Ce texte intéresse autant l'histoire de l'opéra et de la sensibilité musicale que l'étude des idées esthétiques de son temps dans une langue vive précise et souvent très éclairante sur la vie musicale européenne. Images du livre non contractuelles English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1789. Major work by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry composer and theorist combining personal recollections with a reflection on the art of music at the end of the eighteenth century. This text is of interest for the history of opera and musical sensibility as well as for the study of the aesthetic ideas of its time written in a lively and precise style that is often highly revealing about European musical life. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026ref. LRB25025872Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Langue : Français. Environ 538 pages. Français : Réimpression à la demande. Édition originale : 1812. Ouvrage majeur d'André Grétry ces mémoires tiennent à la fois de l'autobiographie du traité et de la réflexion esthétique sur l'art lyrique. Le volume réunit des considérations sur la composition le théâtre le goût musical et la pratique de l'opéra à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle avec une place particulière accordée à l'expérience de l'auteur comme compositeur dramatique. Images du livre non contractuelles English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1812. Major work by André Grétry these memoirs combine autobiography treatise and aesthetic reflection on the art of opera. The volume brings together observations on composition the theater musical taste and operatic practice at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century with particular emphasis on the author's experience as a dramatic composer. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
ref. 139031393X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1843ref. 36799Paris: Mme Ve Launer PN Vve. L. 3379 1843. Large octavo. Quarter dark green calf with marbled boards raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt titling gilt marbled endpapers. 1f. title within decorative border incorporating the names of 8 composers verso cast list and "Table Thèmatique 1f. "Notice" extracted from Grétry's Memoires 120 pp. Engraved. Binding very slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Browned throughout; several leaves partially detached and slightly frayed at inner edges. "This version of the Beauty and the Beast story was created from two literary sources: the substance of the story is from La belle et la bête by Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and the names and the setting from Amour pour amour a verse play by P. C. Nivelle de La Chaussée 1742 . Recognized immediately as Grétry's best as well as largest work to date Zémire et Azor had immense international success it was given at the King's Theatre London in 1779. The text was also used in settings by Linley the elder 1776 Gotthilf von Baumgarten 1776 and Spohr 1819. Grétry's music ranges widely in character and function and uses special instrumental effects in Acts 3 and 4. Mozart owned a copy of the score." David Charlton in Grove Music Online. Mme Ve Launer [PN Vve. L. 3379] unknown
1932ref. 29259Paris: Choudens PN A. C. 10712 1932. Large octavo. Original publisher's ivory illustrated ivory wrappers printed in black and dark brown. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto cast list and contents verso blank 163 i blank pp. Unopened. Wrappers slightly worn soiled and dampstained; handstamp to lower margin of upper. Some signatures split or partially split. Les deux avares was first performed in Paris at Fontainebleau on 27 October 1770 during court celebrations of the wedding of the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette. "Grétry's gift for comedy extended widely. The epitome of his simpler comedy was Les deux avares where the physical stage situations are very well captured in music." M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet and David Charlton in Grove Music Online. Choudens [PN A. C. 10712] unknown
1905ref. 28510Paris: Choudens PN A.C. 10754 1905. Large octavo. Full red cloth with titling to spine gilt original publisher's illustrated wrappers printed in red and black bound in. 1f. recto title verso blank 1 cast list and contents 2-109 i blank pp. Occasional performance annotations in blue ink. Upper wrapper slightly soiled; handstamps to upper margin of front endpaper. Browned; rectangular handstamp with annotations in blue pen to upper margin of title; tape repairs to lower margin of p. 39; handstamp to verso of final leaf. Richard Coeur de Lion in three acts to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine after an anonymous account in the Bibliothèque universelle des romans ii July 1776 pp.163-94 was first performed in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne Salle Favart on 21 October 1784 with a later revision in four acts first performed in Paris at Fontainebleau on 25 October 1785. Choudens [PN A.C. 10754] unknown
1820ref. 29816Zwikau: Schumann 1820. 185 x 120 mm. plus good margins. Printed on wove paper within an octagonal border. Grétry is depicted in later life; the present portrait was quite possibly done from life. "Grétry made decisive contributions to the scope and style of the 18th-century opéra comique and to technical aspects such as musical 'local colour' and the design of overtures. His opéras comiques and recitative comedies for the Paris Opéra enjoyed unparalleled success in the 20 years up to the French Revolution. It is hard to imagine the evolution of opéra comique and Romantic opera in general without the part played by his works." M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet and David Charlton in Grove Music Online. Schumann unknown
ref. 29819266 x 159 mm. Printed on china paper and laid down to mounting sheet. The present engraving depicts the composer seated at a harpsichord with folio volumes most probably of music on the floor beneath the instrument. "Grétry made decisive contributions to the scope and style of the 18th-century opéra comique and to technical aspects such as musical 'local colour' and the design of overtures. His opéras comiques and recitative comedies for the Paris Opéra enjoyed unparalleled success in the 20 years up to the French Revolution. It is hard to imagine the evolution of opéra comique and Romantic opera in general without the part played by his works." M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet and David Charlton in Grove Music Online. unknown
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