Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Rondo

Father of the rondo. Jean Baptiste Davaux; but Gluck was the first to introduce the musical rondo into France, in the opera ofOrpheus.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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