baron grimm
German critic. He worked as a diplomat in Paris from 1749. Influenced by the Encyclopedists, he favoured the use of the Italian style in French operas (especially those of Rameau); in the Querelle des Bouffons of the 1750s he rejected all French music in favour of Rousseau, writing the satirical tract Le petit proph??te de Boehmischbroda (1753) and other works. He was a friend to the visiting Mozart family, 1763-4 and 1778.
ID: 60252 for act i of gluck s opera orfeo ed euridice, for a performance of the french version in moscow mk270 for act i of gluck s opera orfeo ed euridice, for a performance of the french version in moscow, 1897
