RICHARD CŒUR DE LION. An opéra-comique in 3 acts; words by Sedaine, music by Grétry. Produced at the Opéra Comique Oct. 21, 1784. The piece has a certain historical value. One of the airs, ‘Une fièvre brûlante
’, was for long a favourite subject for variations. Beethoven wrote a set of 8 upon it (in C major), published in Nov. 1798, having probably heard the air at a concert of Weigl's in the preceding March. Another set of 7 (also...
