Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm 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. In 1765 Grimm wrote Poème lyrique, an influential article for the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos.
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Baron Friedrich Melchior von Grimm (1769), engraved by John Swaine
Denis Diderot and Friedrich Melchior Grimm, drawing by Carmontelle
Louise d'Épinay (1726-1783)
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Correspondance littéraire, 1813
The Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, and Nannerl. Watercolor by Carmontelle, ca. 1763
Grimm's employer Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, a lover of theatre, with his son. Engraving by Carmontelle, 1759
Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, wife of LeopoldIn their orbit 3
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Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm 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. In 1765 Grimm wrote Poème lyrique, an influential article for the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos. 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."
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