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Jean Baptiste Lully
Jean Baptiste Lully , 1632-87, French operatic composer, b. Florence, Italy. His name originally was Giovanni Battista Lulli. A self-taught violinist, he went to France in 1646 and in 1652 entered the service of Louis XIV. He became chamber composer and conductor of one of the king's orchestras. Lul... Read more
Philippe Quinault
Philippe Quinault , 1635-88, French dramatist. His tragedies and comedies are affected and undistinguished, but he found an outlet for his talent in the 14 opera librettos which he wrote for Lully. The charm and delicacy of his style is clearly apparent in his masterpiece, Armide (1686), a librett... Read more
gavotte
gavotte , originally a peasant dance of the Gavots in upper Dauphiné, France. A type of circle dance characterized by lively, skipping steps, it was introduced at the court of Louis XIV and was used by Lully in his ballets and operas and by François Couperin and J. S. Bach in their key... Read more
Georg Muffat
Georg Muffat , 1645-1704, German organist and composer. Muffat studied in Italy with Arcangelo Corelli and Bernardo Pasquini. He also spent six years in Paris studying Jean Baptiste Lully's music. In 1690 he became kapellmeister at Passau. His compositions advanced the concerto grosso form and the... Read more
Robert Cambert
Robert Cambert , c.1628-1677, French composer; pupil of Chambonnières. His Pastorale d'Issy (1659) and other works are among the first real French operas. With the librettist Pierre Perrin (1625-75) he created French recitative in operas, including Pomone (1671), which contains all the ... Read more
Amadis of Gaul
Amadis of Gaul , Fr. Amadis de Gaule , famous prose romance of chivalry, first composed in Spain or Portugal and probably based on French sources. Entirely fictional, it dates from the 13th or 14th cent., but the first extant version in Spanish, a revision by García de Rodríguez de Mo... Read more
overture
overture instrumental musical composition written as an introduction to an opera, ballet, oratorio, musical, or play. The earliest Italian opera overtures were simply pieces of orchestral music and were called sinfonie. Jean Baptiste Lully standardized the French overture, using an opening sectio... Read more
kettledrum
kettledrum in music, percussion instrument consisting of a hemispherical metal vessel over which a membrane is stretched, played with soft-headed wooden drumsticks. Of ancient origin, it appeared early in Europe, probably imported from the Middle East by crusaders in the 12th or 13th cent. These ea... Read more
Ramón Lull
Ramón Lull , or Raymond Lully, c.1232-1316?, Catalan philosopher, b. Palma, Majorca. Of a wealthy family, he lived in ease until c.1263, when he had a religious experience and was fired with ambition to convert Muslims to Christianity. He studied Arabic language and literature and founded... Read more
Jean Philippe Rameau
Jean Philippe Rameau , 1683-1764, French composer and theorist. He was organist at the cathedral in Clermont and at Notre Dame de Dijon. In the early part of his career his wrote two treatises on harmony (1722, 1726) in which he introduced the important and influential theory of chord inversion. He ... Read more

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Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632–1687)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World LULLY, JEAN-BAPTISTE (1632 – 1687) LULLY, JEAN-BAPTISTE (1632 – 1687), French composer and founder of the French operatic tradition. Lully was born Giovanni Battista Lulli in Florence, the son of...
Jean Baptiste Lully
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jean Baptiste Lully Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Italian-born French composer, established...which remained virtually unchanged for a century. Jean Baptiste Lully was born in or near Florence on Nov. 28, 1632. At the age of...
Lully, Raymond (or Ramon Lull) (ca. 1232-1315)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Lully, Raymond (or Ramon Lull) (ca. 1232...himself heart and soul into everything he did. Lully's father was a Spanish knight, who won...an estate on the island of Majorca, where Lully was born about the year 1232. His father...
Lully, Jean Baptiste
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Lully, Jean Baptiste (1632–87) French composer, b. Italy. Lully was an early influence on the development of French...series of comedy-ballets (1658–64), Lully wrote Cadmus and Hermione (1673), which has been...
Raymond Lully
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Raymond Lully see Lull, Ramón .
Opera
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...1640s, and the Italian Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 – 1687) later received...title of s urintendant de la musique. Lully was decisive in forging the "French style...and stage effects than on taut drama. Lully's most enduring operatic form, the trag...
Marc Antoine Charpentier
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the latter's break with Jean Baptiste Lully; Charpentier was responsible for the music...lose this rich post allegedly because of Lully's opposition. Between 1686 and 1688...dramatic work to be produced in France after Lully's death, Charpentier was not to enjoy...
Pierre Beauchamps
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...certain that he danced in nine of the Moliere-Lully premieres and received top billing in the livres...produced by the royal choreographer Jean-Baptiste Lully, was followed within one month by another Beauchamps-choreographed Lully product
Jean Philippe Rameau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...first national creations to rival those of Lully. Jean Philippe Rameau was born in Dijon...as well as the belief that Jean Baptiste Lully was the only significant composer of French...intellectual circles over the respective merits of Lully and Rameau and later over the merits of...
opera
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...which was taken over by Jean Baptiste Lully in 1672 after the bankruptcy of its founders...were the antecedents of French opera. Lully introduced his audience to grand-scale...Rameau followed the tradition established by Lully,

Dictionary entries related to "Lully,"

Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Lully, Jean-Baptiste [ Lulli, Giovanni Battista ] ( b Florence, 1632; d Paris...opera, the last and most famous being Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme , in which Lully danced role of the Mufti. Having assimilated both It. and Fr. styles and...
Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...in 1670 for court of Louis XIV. Mus. for f.p. comp. by Lully . In 1912, for the first version of Ariadne auf Naxos , R...Hofmannsthal ( Der Bürger als Edelmann ). Some of Lully's mus. was quoted. In 1916, for second version of Ariadne...
minuet
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...called because of small, dainty step ( menu = small) which is characteristic. Soon taken up by composers of art mus. from Lully onwards and became one of optional movts. of the suite . It also occurred in ovs. by Bach and Handel. In 18th cent. it was...
Jolivet, André
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...la vérité de Jeanne (1956); Suite française (1957); Les amants magnifiques , variations on Lully (1960); sym. for str. (1961); Heptade for tpt. and perc. (1971); Yin-Yang , 11 solo str. (1974).VOICE AND...
cebell
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music cebell ( cibell ). Eng. dance, used by Purcell and others, similar to a fast gavotte. So called because based on an air assoc. with the goddess Cybèle in Lully's opera Atys (1676).
Acis and Galatea
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Galatea e Polifemo , comp. Naples, 1708, was incorporated. Rev. for larger forces and pubd. 1743. Contains bass aria O ruddier than the cherry . Lully, Haydn, and Hatton were among other composers of dramatic works on this subject.
Alceste
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...contains Gluck's famous declaration on the nature of opera, which adumbrates mus.-drama. Other operas on this subject by Lully (1674), Schweitzer (1773), Boughton (1922), and Wellesz (1923), among others. Handel wrote a masque, Alceste...
lull
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology lull soothe to sleep or quiescence. XIV. imit. of the repetition of lu lu or similar sounds (cf. lully , lulla , lullay XV) to sing a child to sleep. Hence lullaby XVI; cf. BYE-BYE1 , HUSHABY .
Pickpocket
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Burel; editor: Raymond Lamy; sound engineer: Antoine Archimbault; production designer: Pierre Charbonnier; music: Lully. Cast: Martin Lassalle (Michel ); Marika Green (Jeanne ); Pierre Leymarie (Jacques ); Jean Pelegri (Instructor...
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...b Magdeburg, 1681; d Hamburg, 1767). Ger. composer and organist. Self-taught by study of scores (esp. those of Lully and Campra). Org., Neuekirche, Leipzig, 1704, having already written several operas. Kapellmeister at Eisenach 1708...

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The Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's 'Tragedies Lyriques': A Catalogue Raisonne.
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...referencing livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragedies lyriques, and also provides...catalogue represents the final phase of Lully's dramatic works, after ballet de tour...Verzeichnis samtlicher Werke von Jean-Baptiste Lully (LWV) (Tutzing: Schneider, 1981...
Opera: Sumptuous, sly and sleek: a work fit for a Sun King LULLY'S THeSeE BARBICAN LONDON
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/29/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...the Parisian composers, Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632- 1687), who inspired in the teenage...master Henry Purcell. The Florentine-born Lully was used to boy prodigies, having twirled...a lucrative music-printing monopoly. Lully deserved such indulgence. For no one could...
Jean-Baptiste Lully.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Jean-Baptiste Lully. Armide: Tragedie en musique. Edition...the review that follows. Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) was one of the most influential...might well believe that the curse of one of Lully's enemies has pursued the composer down...
As if it were written yesterday The early music expert William Christie and an ensemble of students are reviving one of Lully's masterpieces.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/23/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...MUSIC student knows of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the Italian immigrant who composed spectacular...plot rooted in classical mythology. While Lully's place in history may have engaged scholars...Christie, the chief revisionist in the modern Lully revival, who has checked ingrained prejudices...
The North American premiere of Lully's Armide: Armide deals with a serious clash of cultures and religion.(New Productions New Roles)
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...North American premiere of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Armide, a French Baroque masterpiece...OMITTED] Written just one year before Lully died, Armide is considered the greatest...emotion and passion. According to Pynkoski, Lully used to hire actors to read Quinault...
Jean-Baptiste Lully.(Jean-Baptiste Lully: Persee)(Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes)(Video recording review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Jean-Baptiste Lully. Persee. DVD. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra...continuing challenges. The production of Lully's Persee originated with an Opera Atelier...www.library.unt.edu/music/lully/Persee 1722/Persee.pdf. The plot...
Christie Revives Lully's 'Thesee'
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/21/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...band of colleagues brought Jean-Baptiste Lully back from the dead with their celebrated...Atys.'' Now Christie is back on Lully's case with a presentation of another...and a linguistic adviser. This because Lully's music aimed first of all at putting...
Lully: Atys. (Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 10/26/1992; ; 666 words ; ...reperformed its revival of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Atys at the Brooklyn Academy of Music...Cherubini a century and a half later, Lully was a French-Italian composer celebrated...kill the poor girl unwittingly--and Lully's perversely subdued and restrained music...
Lully: Acis et Galatee
Magazine article from: Opera News; 4/1/1999; ; 603 words ; LULLY: Acis et Galatee Gens, Masset, Delunsch...entertainment for the Dauphin of France, Lully's Acis retains many dramatic and musical...prologue invoking the favor of the Sun King, Lully's patron; the plot drawn from classical...
Lully: Persee
Magazine article from: Opera News; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; OPERA AND ORATORIO LULLY: Persee Panzarella, Haller, Felip...Mundi, dist.) For his Persee (1682), Lully adapted the story, from Ovid's Metamorphoses...conclude Acts IV and V. More striking are Lully's imaginative strokes and formal innovations...