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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Eight: Part 3

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Book Eight: Part 3

My imagination was so warmed by the composition of this work, that I had the strongest desire to hear it performed, and would have given anything to have seen and heard the whole in the manner I should have chosen; which would have been in private, like that of Lully, who is said to have had Armide performed for himself only. As it was not possible I should hear the performance unaccompanied by the public, I could not see the effect of my piece without getting it received at the Opera. Unfortunately it was quite a new species of composition, to ...

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