Méhul's Uthal

With the exception of the revolutionary song Le Chant du départ, a piece whose composer most people are unable to identify, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul owes his reputation solely to Joseph, the only one of his thirty-five dramatic works that has never ceased to be performed since its premiere in 1807, and to a lesser extent the brilliant overture La Chasse du Jeune Henri. This degree of oblivion is by no means a modern phenomenon, for Berlioz was already deploring it in 1852...