biography
| name: |
Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste
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pronunciation:
[graytree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1741–1813)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Liège, E Belgium, who contributed to the evolution of opera and comic-opera in France. An excellent singer and violinist, he was given a grant to spend some time in Rome where he composed religious music. After working for a year in Geneva (1766) he visited Paris on the advice of Voltaire, settled there, and composed over 40 comic operas, of which Le Huron (1768) and Lucile (1769) were the earliest. He His success as a composer of operas, such as his masterpiece Richard Coeur de Lion (1784), Raoul, and Iphigénie, spread across Europe. He defended his Republican ideas in Mémoires à la Revolution. In 1795 he became a Membre de l'Institut and received the Légion d'Honneur in 1805. |
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