John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music… (1880)
“ Barthelemon, F. HIPPOLITE, a celebrated violinist and composer, was born at Bourdeaux, in France, in 1741, and lived some time in Paris, in which capital he composed, among other music, an opera called "Le Fleuve Scamandre," for the Italian Theatre. In the year 1765, he went to England, and in the following season produced a serious opera for the king's theatre, entitled "Pelopida," which was received with so much applause, that Garrick was induced to pay the author a visit for the purpose of asking him if he thought he could set English words to music. ”
