Engraving of the composer

by Amadée Geille fl. early 19th century after Jean-Baptiste Isabey 1767-1855 by André GrÉTry

$350 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

266 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

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