The Confessions by Rousseau Jean-Jacques

Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2005-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

1745–1747 In the winter after the battle of Fontenoy there were many gala performances at Versailles, among them several operas at the Théâtre des Petites-Écuries. One of these was Voltaire’s play The Princess of Navarre,* set to music by Rameau. The piece had just been altered and had its title changed to The Feasts of Ramiro.† This change of subject demanded several alterations in the incidental interludes, both in the words and music; and someone had to be found capable of dealing with both. Voltaire – who was then in Lorraine – and Rameau were working on the opera The Temple of Glory* and could not attend to the matter. M. de Richelieu thought of me, suggested to me that I should undertake it, and in order that I should be able to judge what there was to do he sent me the poem and the music separately. In the first place, I was unwilling to touch the words without their author’s express permission; and I wrote a very straightforward letter to him on the subject, as was only right. Here is his reply, the original of which is in the packet labelled A, No. I.

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