 These included the italian Egidio Duni ("Le peintre amoureux de son modèle", 1757) and the french Philidor ("Tom Jones", 1765) and Monsigny ("Le déserteur", 1769).All these pieces dealt with ordinary bourgeois characters rather than Classical heroes.But the most important and popular composer of "opéra comique" in the late eighteenth century was André Ernest Modeste Grétry.