L’Europe galante

L’Europe galante is an opéra-ballet in four entrées and a prologue that is generally considered the first work in its genre despite its structural similarity to early seventeenth-century ballets à entrées and Les Saisons by Pascal Colasse. The libretto was by Antoine Houdard de La Motte, and it was announced at first that the music was the work of Joseph Campra, a member of the orchestra at the Palais-Royal and a brother to André Campra. Crediting the score to the former musician was a…