Essai sur l'histoire de la musique en Italie, depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'a nos jours 2/2 - Orloff, Grégoire 1777-1826 (Paris P. Dufart, 1822)
Count Grigori Vladimirovich Orlov, was a Russian senator, engaged in history, political science and literature, and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and of the Academy in Naples. Due to his health, he lived abroad for the most part, particularly in Paris, where during the Restoration he made he made friends with the liberal party, whose ideas he wanted to propagate in Russia, but was disgraced for a time by Emperor Alexander. In 1800, he married Countess Anna Ivanovna Saltykova (1777-1824), daughter of Field Marshal Ivan Petrovich Saltykov (1730-1805). The marriage remained childless. The legitimate male Orlov line died out with him.
Orlov's Mémoires historiques, politiques et littéraires de Naples (with annotations by Duval, 2nd ed., Paris 1825, 5 vols.) was also published in German (Leipzig 1824). He also wrote: Histoire des arts en Italie (Paris 1822, 4 vols.) and Voyage dans une partie de la France (Paris 1824, 3 vols.).
Keywords: 19th Century (1801-1900); Music history; Italy