Correspondance littéraire, adressée à son Altesse Impériale Mr. Le Grand-Duc aujourd'hui Empereur de Russie et à M. le Comte André Schowalow, chambellan de l'Impératrice Catherine II vols. 1-6 - La Harpe, Jean-François de 1739-1803 (Paris Migneret, 1804)
Jean-François de La Harpe (1739-1803) was a French playwright, writer and literary critic. He took part in the quarrel between the Gluckists and the Piccinists, an aesthetic controversy that divided the Parisian musical world between 1775 and 1779, where the defenders of French opera (Gluckists) and the supporters of Italian music (Piccinists) were opposing each other. La Harpe was, together with Marmontel and d'Alembert, a proponent of Italian music.
La Harpe's Literary Correspondence, addressed to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia, is full of theatrical anecdotes about the actors and plays of his time.
Correspondence held between 1774 and 1789
bound in leather
Keywords: Paul I -- Emperor of Russia -- 1754-1801; Shuvalov, Andrei Petrovich -- 1744-1789; 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Correspondence; Literature; Theater criticism; Opera; Paris (France)