This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ...An acquaintance of another kind took place at the same time, between me and the intendans des Menus Flaisirs. It cost me dear, as will be seen in the sequel. Forwi present, I will only mention how it arose. Quinault was one-of my favourite poets. Sensible to the harmony of his beautiful verses, charmed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ...An acquaintance of another kind took place at the same time, between me and the intendans des Menus Flaisirs. It cost me dear, as will be seen in the sequel. Forwi present, I will only mention how it arose. Quinault was one-of my favourite poets. Sensible to the harmony of his beautiful verses, charmed with the elegant facility of his style, I never read the beautiful scenes of Proserpine, of Thesee, and of Armide, without feeling a strong desire to write an opera, nor without some hope of writing like him; vain presumption of youth! but which spoke the praises of the poet that inspiredme; for one of the characters of the truly beautiful, as Horace says, is to be in appearance easy to imitate, but, in fact, inimitable: Ut sibi quivis Speret idem, sudet multum, frustraque laboret Ausus idem. Resides, I was passing my life with Rameau; I saw him labouring at wretched poetry; and I should have been happy to have given him better. Such was the disposition of my mind, when, at the birth of the Duke of Burgundy, the provost of merchants, Bemage, came to propose to me, at Passy, to write an opera with Rameau, relative Mj tLisappy event, and which should be susceptible of show and jBicndor. It was necessary that the words and the music should De composed hastily, and within a given time. Yoli may suppose that we both laboured to sketch an opera. However, as Acanthe and Ccphise was an imposing exhibition, the varied motion on the stage, the beauty of the decorations, some great effects of harmony, and perhaps some interest in the piece itself, sustained it. It was played, I think, fourteen times; and that was much for a bespoken work. I wrote somewhat better two detached acts that Rameau had again the kindness to set to music, la Guirlande and les...
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