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Sources traditionally report only the initial letter (J.) of this singer's name; full details, however, can be found in "Organico dei fratelli a talento della Loggia parigina di Saint-Jean d'Écosse du
Contrat Social (1773-89)" (list of the members of this Masonic lodge), reported as an
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with the text for his most famous opera (premiered in 1786); and
Valadier's was handed to MĂ©hul. Since arriving in Paris in the late 1770s MĂ©hul had published two sets of keyboard sonatas and written or arranged vocal works for the
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537:Stratonice
521:Euphrosine
459:Stratonice
317:References
304:A warrior
172:Voice type
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61:Background
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181:Ataliba,
43:Les Incas
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75:Guillard
67:Chabanon
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640:Épicure
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259:ZĂ©mor,
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