Jean-Baptiste Lully
Born: 28th November 1632, Florence, Italy
Died: 22nd March 1687, Paris, France
Nationality: French, Italian
Jean-Baptiste Lully born Giovanni Battista Lulli was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV and became a French subject in 1661. He was a close friend of the playwright Molière, with whom he collaborated on numerous comédie-ballets, including L'Amour médecin, George Dandin ou le Mari confondu, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Psyché and his best known work, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.
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Further Reading: Lully
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Christophe Rousset on Lully's Atys
16th Jan 2024
As his masterly survey of Lully's complete operas with Les Talens Lyriques nears the finishing-line, the French harpsichordist and conductor reflects on the legacy of the 'incredible arriviste' who rose from humble beginnings in Florence to captivate Louis XIV and his court...
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Christophe Rousset on Lully and Gounod
14th Nov 2019
The French harpsichordist and conductor talks to Katherine about recording Lully's 1677 opera Isis (out now on Aparté) and the original 1859 version of Gounod's Faust, released in September on Bru Zane.
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Popular Works: Lully
- Acis et Galatée (6)
- Air d'Apollon from Le Triomphe de l'Amour (4)
- Armide (6)
- Atys (6)
- Benedictus (6)
- Bois épais (from Amadis) (8)
- Cadmus & Hermione (3)
- Chaconne d'Amadis (6)
- Chaconne de l'Amour médecin (3)
- Chaconne from Phaeton (5)
- De profundis (4)
- Dies irae (9)
- Entrée d'Apollon (6)
- Exaudiat te Dominus (Psalm 19) (6)
- Gavotte en rondeau (4)
- Il faut passer tôt ou tard (from Alceste) (3)
- La Grotte De Versailles (3)
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (5)
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (suite) (3)
- Les Ballets du Roi (5)
- Les Songes agreables from Atys (4)
- Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs (17)
- Miserere (5)
- Miserere mei Deus LWV25 (4)
- O dulcissime Domine (4)
- Ouverture de Psyché (5)
- Passacaille from Armide (9)
- Persée (3)
- Petit Air pour les mesmes (4)
- Phaéton (6)
- Premiere Divertissement (4)
- Psyché (5)
- Quare fremuerunt gentes LWV67 (3)
- Quels spectacles charmants (6)
- Sarabande 'Dieux des Enfers' (3)
- Seconde Divertissement (5)
- Te Deum (17)
- Thesée (4)
- Trios pour le Coucher du Roi (8)
- Troisieme Divertissement (3)
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