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Lully, Jean-Baptiste
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Lully, Jean-Baptiste

 orig. Giovanni Battista Lulli

(born Nov. 29, 1632, Florence—died March 22, 1687, Paris, France) Italian-born French composer. He was made a ward of the court after his mother died and was sent to a noble French household at age 13 as valet. There he learned guitar, organ, violin, and dancing and came to know the composer Michel Lambert (1610–96), who introduced him to society and later became his father-in-law. Lully became a dancer and musician for the king and at age 30 was put in charge of all royal music. In the 1660s he composed the incidental music for Molière's plays as well as those of France's great tragedians. In the early 1670s he obtained the sole patent to present opera and produced the series of “lyric tragedies”—most with librettos by Philippe Quinault (1635–88)—for which he is known, including Alceste (1674), Atys (1676), and Armide (1686). The orchestra he developed was an important forerunner of the modern orchestra. A self-inflicted injury to his toe with his heavy conducting stick led to his death. His style of composition was imitated throughout Europe.


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] It is like the lapis exilis of the German Graal legend, and of Alchemy according to the Second Raymund Lully, for it appears to be a slight stone; it is supposed to have been carried by Aaron when he entered the Holy Place, and it was held in the hands of David when he desired to contemplate close at hand the glory of his Master.
The combination of knowing laughter and scorn with which he treats Jean Baptiste Lully, in particular, doubtless plays quite differently at the College de France or the Academie Francaise than it does in the U.
In between, the pages are filled with noteworthy writings by Lully, Rousseau, Gluck, Mozart, Gretry, Kierkegaard, Verdi, Wagner, Nietzche, Alban Berg, Stravinsky and others.
 
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