Grétry

When he suddenly saw the noble face of Grétry he approached the young musician.

Grétry prayed and wept, as he saw her growing pale; but death was not stopped so easily.

I do not see, father,' replied Grétry, 'why you separate these seeds which seem to me to be all alike.

Thirty years afterward poor Grétry saw three other flowers alike fated, fade and fall under the wintry wind of death.

Swieten showed him an old piece of Grétry's in which the croak was imitated with striking effect.