Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (26 September 1723[1] – 19 December 1807[2]) was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.[3] In 1765 Grimm wrote Poème lyrique, an influential article for the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos.[4][5][6][7][8] Like Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Grimm became interested in opera reform. According to Martin Fontius, a German literary theorist, "sooner or later a book entitled The Aesthetic Ideas of Grimm will have to be written."[9]
- ^ See Friedrich Melchior von Grimm (FactGrid Q421806), retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. 1989, Volume 7, Numéro 7, p. 142
- ^ Larousse Dictionnaire de la musique
- ^ Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French Enlightenment by Downing A. Thomas, p. 148.
- ^ Lully Studies by John Hajdu Heyer, p. 248
- ^ A History of Western Musical Aesthetics by Edward A. Lippman, p. 171
- ^ "King's College London, seminar 1. Music: universal, national, nationalistic". Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
- ^ "Wolfgang Amadé Mozart" by Georg Knepler, p. 43.