Comédie-Ballet
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Comédie-Ballet, form of entertainment in vogue at the Court of Louis XIV, mingling speech, usually in rhymed couplets and originally of little importance, songs, and dancing, in which the King and his courtiers usually joined. Although the genre was not invented by
Molière, he gave it literary form, making the dialogue equal to or even more important than the music. His first
comédie-ballet was
Les Fâcheux (1661) but the finest example of it is
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1671). Among Molière's collaborators in the preparation of these Court spectacles were Philippe
Quinault and, on one occasion, in
Psyché (1671), the great Corneille himself. The music was by Lully, who eventually obtained a monopoly of music in Paris which effectively put an end to the development of such ‘plays with music’, and so hastened the overwhelming popularity of opera and operetta.
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