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François Jacob, « Philidor, une éthique de l'écoute », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1996.2134
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François Jacob : Philidor, a European artist. If François André Danican Philidor, whose bicentenary we have just celebrated, allowed the Comic Opera to expand as it did, it was perhaps thanks to behaviour, or more generally an ethics, which consisted primarily of openness to others. He was open to the influences of his own dynasty which had provided illustrious royal musicians for nearly 150 years, but he was also open to the concert of nations ; his frequent journeys meant that, perhaps despite himself, he made a vast synthesis of it. But Philidor, whose natural tendency was to introspection, as his passion for chess shows, did not manage to impose his genius. Unlucky in friendship and in circumstances, he could only express his musical originality on the stage of the Comic Opera, and left to posterity only one important instrumental work and the finally tragic picture of a lonely, little-known and misunderstood man.