Grètry's supremacy in 18th century French comic opera
is due to his singular attentiveness to sung declamation: the Italian influences of his
early musical education were modified subsequently by his skilful assimilation of the
ideas of the progressive literary circle in which he developed.
He wrote Operas (Zemire et Azor, La vendemmiatrice, Le magnifique,
Matroco, Aucassin et Nicolette, Andromaque, Guillaume Tell, Lisbeth, Le connaisseur, Roger
et Olivier, Iphigènie en Tauride, Zimèo, etc.), Romances and other works (vocal and
strumental).
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