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Revue et gazette musicale de Paris

Revue et gazette musicale de Paris

The Revue musicale (French pronunciation:) was a weekly musical review founded in 1827 by the Belgian musicologist, teacher and composer François-Joseph Fétis, then working as professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Conservatoire de Paris. It was the first French-language journal dedicated entirely to classical music. In November 1835 it merged with Maurice Schlesinger's Gazette musicale de Paris (; first published in January 1834) to form Revue et gazette musicale de Paris (), first published on 1 November 1835. It ceased publication in 1880.