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Born November 28, 1632 in Florence, Italy Died March 22, 1687 in Paris, France

Period: Baroque (1600-1749) Country: France Genres: Orchestral, Ballet, Opera, Choral Biography Clearly the most successful musician of his time, in terms of power and financial wealth, Jean-Baptiste Lully was almost singularly responsible for the shape of French opera during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Born Italian, he died a wealthy Frenchman at the early age of 54. Although most remembered for his opera compositions, he was also a talented violinist and dancer. His business sense and, some say, unscrupulous manner, made him one of the most powerful musicians in all of France, if not Europe. His patron and friend King Louis XIV further cemented Lully's position at the top of Europe's musical elite. Lully's operas remain his legacy, but he also composed over 30 ballets, motets, incidental music, dances, and marches. Lully was born the son of a miller who lost custody of him after his mother died. While in his early teenage years, Lully was taken to France by the Chevalier de Guise in March 1646. He served as a musician and page in Mlle de Montpensier's court until she was exiled, in 1652, to her estate at St. Targeau for her role in the Fronde. During his service with the Montepensier court, Lully was schooled in guitar, violin, and dance. His talents brought him to the attention of the young King Louis XIV. After his release from the Montepensier court, Lully joined the King's court, as a composer and dancer. He became the leader of a small string ensemble formed by the King. Lully's prestige at the court, as well as throughout France, grew even more when he was appointed the Superintendent of Music and subsequently, the Master of Music for the Royal Family. When Lully began composing opera in the 1670s, Italy was the center of great opera. Opera in France was in its infancy. Lully's operas, which were based on Italian models but with French libretto, helped popularize the art form. He composed one a year between 1673 and 1680, and then again between 1682 and 1686. Besides being the premier opera composer in Paris at the time, Lully ensured his exalted position by securing patent rights which would ultimately allow him to determine what opera could be performed and severely limiting performances of operas he himself had not approved of. These patent rights, obtained from librettist Pierre Perrin who had been jailed for debt problems, were for the sole right to form the Royal Academy of Music.

Lully bargained with Perrin for those rights, paying off his debts and providing him with a lifetime stipend. Lully formed the Royal Academie in March 1672. A year later, in April 1673, restrictions were passed that limited productions performed outside of the academie's auspices to no more than two singers and six players. Lully was naturalized a French citizen in December 1661. On July 24, 1662, he married the daughter of his mentor and royal chief musician, Michel Lambert. King Louis XIV attended Lully's wedding to Madeleine Lambert and became the godfather of their eldest son. In 1681, Lully was granted Lettres de Noblesse and named one of the Secretaires du Roi. During a performance celebrating the recovery of the King from an illness, Lully accidentally hit his foot with his conducting staff. An infection resulted, and it ultimately killed him. When Lully died in 1687, he left his wife, six children, and an estate with an estimated value of 800,000 livres, a value more than 500 times the annual salary of an average court musician. ~ Bruce Lundgren, All Music Guide Autographed prints order online, delivery at home Special offers for Christmas www.photo12-gallery.com Jean Baptiste Carpeaux Gallery specializes in the sale and purchase of Carpeaux paintings www.markmurray.com Dictionary Directory > People > Dictionary - People Lully (l-l', l-) , Jean Baptiste 16321687. Italian-born French composer. He was court composer to Louis XIV, founding the national French opera and producing court ballets for Molire's plays.

Jean-Paul Riopelle Art 3 Floors of Original Works of Art Klimantiris Art Gallery Since 1978 www.klimantiris.com QOOB: Jean Luc Chansay I video della Warprecords in streaming su QOOB www.qoob.tv Britannica Directory > Reference > Britannica Concise Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Nov. 28, 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 (161096), 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 Molire'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 (163588) 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. For more information on Jean-Baptiste Lully, visit Britannica.com. Gay Athletes and Sports Great stories on gay athletes and athletes who are gay-friendly www.outsports.com Dcouverte Littraire Terminus, de Jean Durin 14 nouvelles huit fois primes ! nouveauteslitteraires.com Encyclopedia Directory > People > Encyclopedia - People Lully, Jean Baptiste (zhN btst' ll') , 163287, 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. Lully composed numerous ballets, many for plays by Molire, until 1672, when he obtained a patent for the production of opera. He established the Acadmie royale de Musique, where he held a virtual monopoly on the French operatic stage, amassing a fortune producing his own works. Among his many operas are Cadmus et Hermione (1673), Alceste (1674), Amadis (1684), and Armide (1686). His librettist, Philippe Quinault, was a dramatist in his own right, and Lully called their works tragdies lyriques. He established the form of the French overture, wrote recitatives well suited to the French language, and set the style for French opera until the advent of Gluck. galerieDOWNTOWN Franois Laffanour - 20th Century furniture by Jean Royre www.galeriedowntown.com Saint-Jean-d'Ardires Find and book a hotel online. All hotels with special offers. www.booking.com WordNet Directory > Reference > WordNet
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The noun Jean Baptiste Lully has one meaning: Meaning #1: French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687) Synonyms: Lully, Lulli, Giambattista Lulli Blue Jean Beauty Queen Top guide and resources to find out Blue Jean Beauty Queen

toplg.com/beauty-queen Indigo blue china indigo blue producer 5000 MT / Year capacity for export www.color-search.com Wikipedia Directory > Reference > Wikipedia Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste de Lully, originally Giovanni Battista di Lulli (November 28, 1632 March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He became a French subject in 1661.

Jean-Baptiste Lully. Life Born in Florence, either the son of a miller or a nobleman as Lully himself claimed (which if the case would render him di Lulli or de Lully), Lully had little education, musical or otherwise, but he had a natural talent to play the guitar and violin and to dance. In 1646, he was discovered by the Duke of Guise and taken to France by him, where he entered the services of Mademoiselle de Montpensier (la Grande Mademoiselle) as a scullery-boy. There is some dispute over this, however; it is actually possible that he was employed to teach her Italian. With the help of this lady his musical talents were cultivated. He studied the theory of music under Nicolas Mtru. A scurrilous poem on his patroness resulted in his dismissal. He came into Louis XIV's service in late 1652, early 1653 as a dancer. He composed some music for the Ballet de la Nuit which pleased the king immensely. He was appointed as the composer of instrumental music to the king and conducted the royal string orchestra of the French court, Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi (Twenty-four Violins of the King) or the Grande Bande (large band). He tired of the lack of discipline of the Grande Bande, and with the King's permission formed his own Petits Violons. Lully composed many ballets for the King during the 1650s and 1660s, in which the King and Lully himself danced. He also had tremendous success composing the music for the comedies of Molire, including Le Marriage forc (1664), L'Amour mdecin (1665), and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670). Louis XIV's interest in ballet waned as he aged and his dancing ability declined (his last performance was in 1670) and so Lully pursued opera. He bought the privilege for opera from Pierre Perrin and with the backing of Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the king, created a new privilege which essentially gave Lully complete control of all music performed in France until his death. He was a notorious libertine. In 1662, he did marry Madeleine Lambert, daughter of Lully's friend and fellow musician Michel Lambert, and proceeded to have ten children by her. But at the height of his career, in 1685 he felt confident enough to flaunt his relationship with Brunet, his young page from La Chapelle. Although his life is full of meteoric heights, his love affairs with boys and women brought him

down in scandal several times to the great displeasure of Louis XIV and led to his renown as a sodomite.[1] Despite these scandals, he always managed to get back into the good graces of Louis XIV who found Lully essential for his musical entertainments and who thought of Lully as one of his few true friends. In 1681 Lully was appointed as a court secretary to Louis XIV and was ennobled, after which he wrote his name "Jean-Baptiste de Lully" and was addressed as "Monsieur de Lully". On January 8, 1687, Lully was conducting a Te Deum in honor of Louis XIV's recent recovery from illness. He was beating time by banging a long staff (a precursor to the baton) against the floor, as was the common practice at the time, when he struck his toe, creating an abscess. The wound turned gangrenous, but Lully refused to have his toe amputated and the gangrene spread resulting in his death on the 22nd of March. He left his last opera, Achille et Polyxne, unfinished. On his death-bed Lully wrote Bisogna morire, peccatore (You must die, sinner.) Music Main article: List of compositions by Jean-Baptiste Lully Lully's music is from the Middle Baroque period, 16501700. Typical of Baroque music is the use of the basso continuo (or simply continuo) as the driving force behind the music. French Middle Baroque is exceptional in all of classical music as having the lowest pitch, 392 Hz for A above Middle C (which in modern practice is usually 440 Hz). Lully's music is known for its power, liveliness in its fast movements and its deep emotional character in its sad movements. Some of his most popular works are his passacaille (passacaglia) and chaconne which are dance movements found in many of his works such as Armide or Phaton. His Miserere, written for the funeral of the minister Seguier, is considered a work of genius. Equally acclaimed are his minor sacred compositions. The influence of Lully's music produced a radical revolution in the style of the dances of the court itself. Instead of the slow and stately movements which had prevailed until then, he introduced lively ballets of rapid rhythm. He effected important improvements in the composition of the orchestra, into which he introduced several new instruments, and Lully enjoyed the friendship of Molire, with whom he created a new music form, the comdie-ballet which combined theater, comedy, and ballet. Lully founded French opera (tragdie en musique or tragdie lyrique), having found Italian-style opera inappropriate for the French language. Having found a congenial poet and librettist in Philippe Quinault, Lully composed many operas and other works, which received enthusiastically. Lully can be considered the founder of French opera, having foresaken the Italian method of dividing musical numbers into separate recitatives and arias, choosing instead to combine the two for dramatic effect. Lully also opted for quicker story development as was more to the taste of the French public. Sources Scott, R.H.F. Jean-Baptiste Lully. Peter Owen Limited, 1973. Rosow, Lois. "Lully, Jean-Baptiste" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7. External links Free scores by Jean-Baptiste Lully in the Werner Icking Music Archive Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection at the University of North Texas, including full-text scans of first and early edition scores Bibliothque Nationale de France has a collection of autographs available on-line.

Public Domain Scores by Lully at IMSLP Films on Louis XIV and period[2] Specifically "Le Roi Danse", film by Gerard Corbiau, 2001. Film details Lully's life at court under Louis XIV. References This article incorporates text from the Encyclopdia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
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