Music of Philadelphia and actress. Benjamin Franklin was also a musician, a guitar teacher and inventor of musical instruments like the glass armonica. In 1784 Andrew Adgate organized the Institution for the Encouragement of Church Music, renamed the Uranian Academy (1787–1800). The school was the center of the city's choral music scene during the latter part of the 18th century. The earliest known performance of a musical drama in Philadelphia was Colley Cibber’s "Flora, or Hob in the Well", a ballad opera performed by a touring opera company from England in 1754. In 1757 Francis Hopkinson mounted an elaborate production of Thomas Arne’s
18th-century French literature de Sade (the Marquis de Sade) (1797); "Le Sopha- conte moral" ) ("The Sopha - a moral tale") by Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1745), and "les Bijoux indiscrets" ("The indiscreet jewels") (1748) and "La Religieuse" ("The Nun") by Diderot (1760). The novel of feelings appeared in the second half of the 18th century, with the publication of "Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse" ("Julie, or the New Heloise"), in a novel in the form of letters, written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1761). It was modelled after the English novel "Pamela" by Samuel Richardson, which was the best-selling novel of the century,