Lucile Grétry (1772-1790) - Ouverture 'Le mariage d'Antonio' (1786)

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Composer: Lucile Grétry (1772-1790)
Work: Ouverture 'Le mariage d'Antonio' (1786)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: No
Real performance: https://youtu.be/yIBPeimA2WI
Sheet music (pdf): https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/ed/IMSLP31056-SIBLEY1802.2806.7595.a64c-39087011219989pp1-14.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/pmhdo9s2c4mduue/GRETRYL-Overture.xml/file

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Lucile (Angélique-Dorothée-Louise) Grétry
(Paris, 15 July 1772 - Paris, March 1790)

French composer, daughter of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813). Lucile was named in the family after the heroine of Grétry’s second Parisian opera (1769). Some details of her life emerge from her father’s letter to the Journal de Paris of 29 July 1786, the day of the première of her 'Le mariage d’Antonio'. She had received early lessons from her father in counterpoint and declamation, and from Jean-François Tapray in harmony. Like her two sisters, she was a youthful victim of tuberculosis. As a composer, 'Le mariage d’Antonio' takes its point of departure from Sedaine’s libretto to Richard Coeur-de-lion (1784), in which the young Antonio had acted as Blondel’s guide. Blondel now facilitates Antonio’s betrothal. Lucile Grétry composed the vocal parts, the bass and a harp accompaniment, which her father scored for orchestra. The Correspondance littéraire praised its musical aptness, attractive melody, and freshness. The work was relatively successful, gaining 47 performances to February 1791. However, his second opera attempt 'Toinette et Louis' (1787), whose libretto was criticized, had only a single performance.