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Lully, Jean-Baptiste

LULLY, JEAN-BAPTISTE (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.

Church Music

Lully was also influential in the choice of music and musicians for the royal chapel. His compositions for the church include a number of motets, some six Grands motets and 14 Petits motets. An example of the first is the fine setting of the Dies irae from the Requiem Mass, for double choir, of the Te Deum, and the Miserere, the last a favourite of the king. Examples of the second are his settings of the Vespers Psalm Dixit Dominus, the Anima Christi and the Regina coeli. Instrumental Music Instrumental works by Lully include various sets of dances from his stage works and eighteen Trios pour le coucher du Roi.

Discography
Image	Title	Price	Release Date	Label
	Lully: The Grand Motets	£14.99	Sep 26, 2011	Naxos Classics
	Lully: Persee [DVD] [2005] (Cyril Auvity)	£24.99	Apr 26, 2010	EuroArts DVD
	LULLY: TRAGEDY OF ARMIDE	£12.99	Sep 29, 2008	Naxos Classics
	LULLY: PSYCHE (3CDs)	£34.99	Jul 29, 2008	Cpo
	LULLY: Grand Motets, Vol. 3	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	May 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	LULLY: Grand Motets, Vol. 2	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Feb 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	LULLY: Ballet Music for the Sun King	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	LULLY: Grand Motets, Vol. 1	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics

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	Suzuki Evergreens Vol. 1	~~£6.99~~ £3.49	Apr 26, 2010	Naxos Classics
	Discover Baroque	£16.99	Apr 27, 2009	Naxos Audio Books
	V. 6 GREAT SINGERS: PONSELLE	£14.99	Mar 31, 2008	Naxos Historical
	THESEE; TRAGEDIE EN MUSIQUE	£34.99	Jul 30, 2007	Cpo
	The King's Consort Collection	£4.99	Feb 18, 2005	Hyperion
	Discover Music of the Baroque Era	£12.99	Feb 18, 2005	Naxos Educational
	Art & Music: Rembrandt - Music of His Time	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Sep 24, 2004	Naxos Educational
	Imperial Fanfares	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jul 23, 2004	Naxos Classics
	CARUSO, Enrico: Complete Recordings, Vol. 12 (1902-1920)	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Apr 1, 2004	Naxos Historical
	Salve Regina	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jun 1, 2002	Naxos Classics
	World of Early Music	£12.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	Marc Roger Normand Couperin: Livre de Tablature de Clavescin	£13.99	Jan 1, 2000	Hyperion

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