Previous posts for January 28th are here: John Tavener (2020), Artur [Arthur] Rubinstein; Johann Ernst Bach (2021), Giovanni Battista Velluti; Ferdinand Hérold (2022), and Gottfried Vopelius (2023)
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Ferdinand Hérold (28 January 1791 – 19 January 1833) was a French composer, best known for his many operas and ballets.
Appropriation
Berlioz found things to praise in Zampa but thought Hérold lacked a style of his own, yet was neither Italian, nor French, nor German: "His music strongly resembles those industrial products made in Paris according to processes invented elsewhere and slightly modified; it is Parisian music", which, Berlioz thought, was why the Parisian middle classes loved it. – Wikipedia
Hérold, wrote Berlioz, was worthwhile,
But was a man without a style.
Hérold’s stuff, he said, resembled
Manufactured goods assembled
From scraps obtained from hither and yon,
With Paris logos added on.
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