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	Jean-Baptiste Lully - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista 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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lully (974 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Lully, Jean-Baptiste
		Lully was ruthless in his pursuit of power and used his influence with the king to eliminate potential rivals through the establishment of monopolies over stage music.
		However, Lully's influence with the king evaporated in 1685 when he was involved in a scandal that the king could not ignore.
		Lully is said to have died by stabbing himself in the foot with a cane with which he was beating time at a rehearsal.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/lully_jb.html (746 words)

	HOASM: Jean-Baptiste Lully
		A cabal attempted to dislodge Quinault in 1674, and the poet was banished from 1677 until 1680 for an ungracious portrayal of the king's mistress, Mme.
		Lully himself was the target both of attacks by La Fontaine and Boileau and of criticism in the Mercure galant and was involved in legal proceedings in 1675-77 over an alleged murder conspiracy led by Guichard.
		Lully's pupils included Pelham Humfrey, Georg Muffat, J. Kusser, and J. Fischer, who carried the French orchestral style to England, Germany, and the rest of Europe.
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	Jean-Baptiste Lully (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At her court in the Tuileries Lully got to know the best in French music and, despite his patroness's dislike of Mazarin and her involvement in the Fronde, he was no stranger to Italian music either.
		Lully obtained release from her service and on the death of his friend Lazzarini, in 1653, was appointed Louis XIV's compositeur de la musique instrumentale.
		Lully's music was correspondingly elevated, in the stately overtures, the carefully moulded 'récitatif simple' and the statuesque choruses; many of the airs, too, draw as much attention to the galant mores of the court as to the stage action.
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	Lully, Jean Baptiste on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He became chamber composer and conductor of one of the king's orchestras.
		Lully composed numerous ballets, many for plays by Molière, until 1672, when he obtained a patent for the production of opera.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lully-J1e.asp (335 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		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.
		Lully was also influential in the choice of music and musicians for the royal chapel.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Lully,+Jean-Baptiste (356 words)

	Lullybio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lully once said of himself that he had "never learnt more about music than he had known at the age of 17 but that he had worked all of his life to perfect this knowledge" (Anthony 1980, 314).
		Lully’s early career in court music was focused on the genre of ballet.
		Lully’s exclusive hold on the writing of opera during his lifetime led to one hundred years of French opera in his style.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/Blair/Courses/MUSL243/lullbio.htm (1430 words)

	Lully, Jean-Baptiste: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1653, after his education with Roberday and Gigault, Lully was employed by the "Sun King," Louis XIV, as composer to that illustrious court.
		Lully was director of Paris's Académie royale de musique, in which position he exerted a tremendous influence upon opera in France.
		In addition, Lully composed ballets, sacred vocal pieces, and incidental music for the theater.
	www2.nau.edu /~tas3/lully.html (95 words)

	JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY - LoveToKnow Article on JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Through the duc de Guise he entered the services of Madame de Montpensier as scullery-boy, and with the help of this lady his musical talents were cultivated.
		While directing a Te Deum on the 8th of January 1687 with a rather long baton he injured his foot so seriously that a cancerous growth resulted which caused his death on the 22nd of March.
		Lully enjoyed the friendship of Moliere, for some of whose best plays he composed illustrative music.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LU/LULLY_JEAN_BAPTISTE.htm (366 words)

	JEAN BAPTISTE LULLY, Biography, Discography
		Lully remained in Italy studying dance and music until the age of eleven.
		Through the patents that Lully acquired he restricted theaters from employing more than a handful of musician, and for a company to perform an opera it must have permission from Lully himself.
		Lully wrote the kind of music he liked, and luckily for him his taste in music was very similar to Louis XIV’s.
	www.goldbergweb.com /en/history/composers/11417.php (594 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Lully (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jean-Baptiste Lully''', originally '''Giovanni Battista Lulli (November 28, 1632–March 22, 1687), was an ItalyItalian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France.
		After Lully was ennobled, he wrote his name Jean Baptiste de Lully and he was addressed as "Monsieur de Lully".
		French sources widely attribute to Lully the composition of the British patriotic anthem God Save the Queen: the sole ultimate source of the attribution is a 19th-century forgery, the Marquise de Créquy''Souvenirs'' of the Marquise de Créquy (q.v.)/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Jean-Baptiste_Lully (954 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Lully
		Born in Florence, Italy, on November 28, 1632, and originally named Giovanni Battista Lulli, he went to France at the age of 14, entering the service of Louis XIV in 1652 as a ballet dancer and violinist.
		Lully composed ballets, such as Alcidiane (1658), for the court, dancing alongside the king in many of them.
		Lully's operas stand in contrast to the Italian opera of the day, with its emphasis on virtuoso solo singing.
	baroque.freeservers.com /lully.htm (299 words)

	Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Jean Baptiste Lully - Main Page
		Lully was a dancing master of court, a comic and a composer of music in the 17th Century.
		Lully's band was known as the Petitis Violins du Roi (The Petite Band).
		In 1672, Lully became the director of the 'Academie Royale de Music' and composed many spectacles with Molière, many of which set the stage for the ballet today.
	www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2lully1.htm (203 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Lully - InformationBlast
		Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista 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.
		Lully enjoyed the friendship of Molière, and with Molière created a new music form the comédie-ballet which combined theater, comedy, and ballet.
		Although his life is full of metoric heights, his love affairs with men and women also brought him down in scandal several times at the great displeasure of Louis XIV.
	www.informationblast.com /Jean-Baptiste_Lully.html (848 words)

	The Infography about Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
		The following sources are recommended by a librarian whose research specialty is the French Baroque composer Jean Baptiste Lully.
		Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony.
		Schmidt, Carl B. The Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies Lyriques: A Catalogue Raisonné.
	www.infography.com /content/266636379652.html (224 words)

	Jean Baptiste Lully
		According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Jean Baptiste Lully [originally Giovanni Battista Lulli] was an Italian-born composer who was taken in boyhood to France and first worked there as a scullion, then as a violinist.
		A brilliant intriguer; obtained a monopoly of opera production in France; made a fortune by speculation; injured his foot with the long staff he used for beating time on the floor, and died of the resulting abscess.
		Lully also has "Die Musikanten" published in Spielstücke für Blockflöte und Gittarre.
	www.grainger.de /music/composers/lully.html (174 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jean Baptiste Lully (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jean Baptiste Lully[zhAN bAtEst´ lUlE´] Pronunciation Key, 1632–87, French operatic composer, b.
		Lully composed numerous ballets, many for plays by MoliEre, until 1672, when he obtained a patent for the production of opera.
		His librettist, Philippe Quinault, was a dramatist in his own right, and Lully called their works tragEdies lyriques.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lully-Je.html (296 words)

	NewOlde.com - Jean-Baptiste Lully - News, Operas, Performances, New Releases, Reviews
		Antonia L. Banducci, The Opera Atelier Performance (Toronto 2000): The Spirit of Lully on the Modern Stage.
		Jean-Baptiste Lully, André Danican Philidor, Nicolas Desrosiers, Robert Cambert and Claude Babelon.
		Jean-Baptiste Lully, transcribed for harpsichord by Jean-Henri d'Anglebert.
	www.newolde.com /lully.htm (1708 words)

	Lully, Jean-Baptiste -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Italian Giovanni Battista Lulli Italian-born French court and operatic composer who from 1662 completely controlled French court music and whose style of composition was imitated throughout Europe.
		Born of Italian parents, Lully gallicized his name when he became a naturalized Frenchman.
		The foremost composer and musician of the 17th-century French court, Jean-Baptiste Lully, was born on Nov. 28, 1632, in Florence, Italy, as Giovanni Battista Lulli.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049330 (670 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
		Jean-Baptiste Lully was born in Italy, the son of a miller.
		When he was a young boy, his mother died, and he was taken to France to work as a servant in the home of a rich aristocrat.
		Lully accidentally hit his foot instead of the floor.
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	Lully, Jean Baptiste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lully later conducted one of the royal orchestras and in 1662 became music master to the royal family.
		In collaboration with French playwright Molière, Lully composed a series of comedy ballets including The Bores (1661), Le mariage forcé (1665), and Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670).
		In 1672 he became director of the Académie Royale de Musique.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/L/Lully/n01.html (96 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Lully - Atys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jean-Baptiste Lully has long been known as the father of French opera; this 1987 recording was the first to suggest his works are fit for something more than the library shelf.
		It is said that this opera was written by the Italian composer Lully for the famous sun king Louis XIV and that he so identified with the obscure mythical origin that he wept at the end.
		I have seen engravings of the grand event; it was staged in the inner court at a young Versailles, with thousands of candles.
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	The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection
		French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully wrote numerous ballets, collaborated with French playwright Molière on comédies-ballets, and is credited with being the prime contributor to the development of French opera in the 17th century.
		This site has collected 21 first and second editions of Lully’s works and presents full scores of the original sheet music in PDF format.
		The site also focuses on techniques for printing Lully’s music, the Ballard family of music printers, and offers a graphics catalogue containing close to 100 images drawn from editions of Lully’s works.
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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Jean-Baptiste Lully
		Find the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully in the Archives.
		Lully, Jean-Baptiste [Lulli, Giovanni Battista] (b Florence, 1632; d Paris, 1687).
		opera, the last and most famous being Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, in which Lully danced role of the Mufti.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/lully.html (431 words)

	Jean Baptiste Lully
		Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)(Adopted name of Giovanni Battista Lulli) (The Hutchinson Dictionary of Music)
		Lully, Jean Baptiste (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
		Anglebert, Jean Henri d' (1635-1691) (The Hutchinson Encyclopedia)
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		1687: Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer who made French opera popular, died from an abscess on his foot caused by striking it with the stick he used to conduct his Te Deum.
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