Pygmalion (1762 play)

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Pygmalion was a short play ("scène lyrique") written in 1762 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A novel feature of the work was the use of instrumental musical interludes (composed by Horace Coignet); because of this, it is sometimes considered the first example of a melodrama.

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