Pygmalion

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Pygmalion was a short play ("scène lyrique") written in 1762 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau with music by Horace Coignet. It was first performed at the Hotel de Ville, Lyon in 1770. A novel feature of the work was the use of spoken monodrama with instrumental musical interludes. It is considered the first example of a melodrama.
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  • 1770

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 28 June 1712  – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought. His novel,...

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  • 1762
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