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[ "'Le Devin du Village' est un intermède charmant dont les paroles et la musique sont de M. Rousseau," writes Grimm (June 23, 1753) to Gottsched (Danzel, Gottsched, p. 351). He speaks of it again on December 15, 1753 (Corr. Litt., I., p. 92), as an "intermède agréable, qui a eu très-grand succès à Fontainebleau et à Paris;" and again, in February, 1754, as an "intermède français très-joli et très-agréable" (Ibid.,p. 112). He passes it over, however, in his account at a later date of Rousseau's musical works, and mentions only his unsuccessful opera, "Les Muses Galantes.">[
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[La Harpe. Corr. Litt., II., p. 59.]
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[ A. M. Z., XXI., p. 841. XXIII., p. 141. Berlioz, Voy. Mus., I., p. 389.]
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[ Adam (Souv. d'un Music., p. 198), suggests that Rousseau's score may have been revised by Francoeur.]
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[ On the subject of recitative, Rousseau speaks exhaustively and to the point, both in his Dictionnaire de Musique, and in the Lettre sur la Musique Française. (Ouvres, XI., p. 296.)]