Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German dramatist and playwright
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Place of Birth: Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
About Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
- Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (26 December 1723 – 19 December 1807) was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
- In 1765 Grimm wrote Poème lyrique, an influential article for the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos.
- Like Christoph Willibald Gluck Grimm became interested in opera reform.
- According to Martin Fontius, a German literary theorist, "sooner or later a book entitled The Aesthetic Ideas of Grimm will have to be written."
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