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It appeared 9th April, 1791 (not long after the death of Grtoy's youngest daughter), and was a popular success, "breathing" (said the Journal de Paris), " hatred of oppression and love of liberty," Meantime the day of the Revolution had dawned. The theatres were closed one evening! ^y angry crowds because Necker was banished, then came the taking of the Bastille and ten days later the opera re-opened with benefit 1 12 July, 1789— Gr^try's Aspasie was to be performed at 5 p.m. 140 THE EARLIER FR...ENCH MUSICIANS performances (Panurge) " in aid of the workmen^ who had fought for Liberty and la Patrie " (21st, 26th and 29th July, 1789).- A couple of unsuccessful operas and a " Ro- mance of the Willow," written for the tragedy of Otello, bring Gr^try's works down to November, 1792. The Romance was very popular and was subsequently arranged for voice accompanied by guitar, harp or harpsichord, published by "citizen Gr^ry." In February of that year, however, the opera Richard Cceur de Lion had been forbidden, so was Pierre le Grand, and any theatre producing works " calculated to revive the superstition of royalty " was closed, " the directors to be punished with the utmost rigour of the law." In Gr6try's Memoirs he mentions an instance of the fanatical hatred of that " superstition." An unfortunate parrot had his neck wrung for singing "Richard, O mon roi," an air he had learnt in days when there was still a king in France.
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