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Classiscsonline Home » Composers » L » Lully, Jean-Baptiste



Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687)

Italian by birth, Lully made his career in France, where he rose from the position of a page to Mlle de Montpensier to that of Composer of the King's Music, Master of Music to the Royal Family and to a position of complete control of all musical performances that involved singing throughout. He collaborated with Molière and with Corneille and, more particularly, with the poet Quinault, creating a specifically French form of opera in various genres, comédies-ballets and tragédies lyriques, in both of which there was an element of dance, a French royal preoccupation. He was the most important French composer of his period, influential in his development of the so-called French Overture, with its introductory slow dotted rhythms and following fugal section and his insistence on orchestral discipline, particularly in the matter of string bowing.

Stage Music

The tragédies lyriques of Lully exercised a strong influence over French opera in his life-time and in the years that followed his death in 1687. These works are usually treatments of subjects drawn from classical mythology. With changes of fashion, they are rarely heard nowadays in the theatre, although overtures and dances from the operas may appear in instrumental programmes. The comédies-ballets in the creation of which Molière was a junior partner are now generally performed without the music and ballet that was an essential element in the original work, although the music for Le bourgeois gentilhomme may be better remembered.

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