Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (26 September 1723[1] – 19 December 1807[2]) was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.[3] In 1765 Grimm wrote Poème lyrique, an influential article for the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos.[4][5][6][7][8] Like Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Grimm became interested in opera reform. According to Martin Fontius [de], a German literary theorist, "sooner or later a book entitled The Aesthetic Ideas of Grimm will have to be written."[9]
^See Friedrich Melchior von Grimm (FactGrid Q421806), retrieved 29 June 2022.