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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Born: 1632
Died: 1687
Country: France
Period: Baroque
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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
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Acis et Galatée, LWV 73 (1)
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Acis et Galatée, LWV 73: Air (1)
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Acis et Galatée, LWV 73: C'est en vain (2)
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Acis et Galatée, LWV 73: Chaconne (2)
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Acis et Galatée, LWV 73: Rigaudon (1)
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Air de Trompette (2)
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Air tendre (1)
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Airs (4) pour le carrousel de Monseigneur, LWV 72 (1)
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Airs de trompettes, timbales et hautbois: Prélude / Menuet / Gigue (1)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Air de Caron (2)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Echos (1)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Il faut passer tôt ou tard dans ma barque (3)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Marche des Assiégeants (1)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Marche des combattants (3)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Menuet (1)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Overture (2)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Overture - La Retour des Plaisirs (1)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Rondeau pour la Fête Marine (1)
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Alceste, LWV 50: Suite (2)
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Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide, opera, LWV 50: Act II: Scene 08 (1)
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Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide, opera, LWV 50: Act III: Scene 3-4 (1)
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Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide, opera, LWV 50: Commence de gouter (1)
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Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide, opera, LWV 50: Il faut changer toujours (1)
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Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide, opera, LWV 50: Le Héros que j'attens (1)
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Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide, opera, LWV 50: Que chacun chante (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Amiam dunque, infin ch'è lecito (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Cede al vostro valore (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Chaconne des Maures (2)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Overture (3)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Petite chaconne (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Récit chanté par la Signora Anna (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Récits italiens chantés (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Ritournelle et air de Mademoiselle Hilaire (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Ritournelle et récit de la Fortune chanté (1)
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Alcidiane, LWV 9: Ritournelle et récit italien (1)
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Amadis, LWV 63 (1)
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Amadis, LWV 63: Air pour les démons et les monstres (1)
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Amadis, LWV 63: Bois épais (8)
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Amadis, LWV 63: Chaconne (1)
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Amadis, LWV 63: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Amadis, LWV 63: Suite (1)
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Amadis, opera, LWV 63: Bois épais redouble ton ombre (1)
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Amadis, opera, LWV 63: Les plaisirs nous suivent (1)
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Amadis, opera, LWV 63: Suivons L'Amour (guitar) (1)
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Amadis, opera, LWV 63: Suivons L'Amour (Sang & Teorb) (1)
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Amour malade, LWV 8: Air no 1 pour les braves et les coquettes (1)
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Amour malade, LWV 8: Air no 2 pour les braves jaloux (1)
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Amour malade, LWV 8: Contre les jaloux (1)
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Amour malade, LWV 8: E che sarebbe amor senza cochette? (1)
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Amour malade, LWV 8: Le damigelle delle cochette (1)
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Amour malade, LWV 8: Que les jaloux sont importuns (1)
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Anima Christi, LWV 77 no 1 (1)
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Armide, LWV 71 (3)
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Armide, LWV 71: Act II, Scene 5 (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Act II, Scene 5 - Prelude (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Air (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Armide, vous m'allez quitter... Les plaisirs ont choisi (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Enfin il est en ma puissance (3)
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Armide, LWV 71: Esprits empressés à nous plaire (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Excerpt(s) (2)
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Armide, LWV 71: Le perfide Renaud me fuit (3)
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Armide, LWV 71: Les Sourdines (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Overture (3)
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Armide, LWV 71: Passacaglia (8)
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Armide, LWV 71: Plus j'observe ces lieux (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Quel l'éclait de son nom (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Traitre, attens (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Venez, Haine implacable (1)
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Armide, LWV 71: Venez, venez seconder mes desirs (1)
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Atys, LWV 53 (4)
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Atys, LWV 53: Act 3, Scene 4 - Prelude (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Air des songes agréables (5)
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Atys, LWV 53: Allons, allons, accourez tous (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Allons, allons...Ecoutons les oiseaux (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Atys est trop heureux...Un amour malheureux (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Atys, ne feignez plus (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Belle Nymphe, L'Hymen va suivre mon envie (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Célébrons la gloire immortelle (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Dessente de Cibelle (1)
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Atys, LWV 53: Dormons, dormons tous (3)
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Atys, LWV 53: Entrée des Corybantes no 1 (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Entrée des Corybantes no 2 (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Entrée des Nymphes (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Gavotte (1)
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Atys, LWV 53: Je veux joindre en ces lieux (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: La Beauté la plus sévère...Un grand calme (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: O vous qui prenez...Que l'on chante (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Overture (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Que le malheur d'Atys afflige tout le monde (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Tu t'étonnes, Mélisse (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Venez former des noeuds charmants (2)
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Atys, LWV 53: Venez, furieux Corybantes (2)
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Atys, opera, LWV 53: Les Songes agréables (1)
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Au clair de lune (4)
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Ave coeli munus supernum, LWV 77 no 2 (1)
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Ballet de la nuit: Le Roi représentant le soleil levant (1)
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Ballet de la nuit: Overture (1)
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Ballet Royal de Flore: Entrée pour les Galants et les Dames (1)
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Ballet Royal de Flore: Entrée pour les Jardiniers et quatre Galants (1)
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Ballet Royal de Flore: Entrée pour Vertumne (1)
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Ballet Royal de Flore: Menuet pour les mêmes (1)
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Bellérophon (1)
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Bellérophon: Assez de Pleurs (1)
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Benedictus, LWV 64 no 2 (2)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49 (1)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49: Belle Hermione (2)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49: Chaconne (1)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49: Entrée de l'Envie (1)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49: Gavotte rondeau (1)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49: Menuet I "Air pour les dieux Champêtres" (1)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49: Menuet II (1)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49: Overture (2)
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Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49: Premier air des faunes (1)
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Courante (1)
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De profundis, LWV 62 (2)
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Dies irae, LWV 64 no 1 (4)
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Divertissement for first day of Les plaisirs de l'Ile enchantée, LWV 22 no 1-4: Entrée des quatre sai (1)
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Divertissement for first day of Les plaisirs de l'Ile enchantée, LWV 22 no 1-4: Marche de hautbois po (1)
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Divertissement for first day of Les plaisirs de l'Ile enchantée, LWV 22 no 1-4: Overture (1)
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Divertissement for first day of Les plaisirs de l'Ile enchantée, LWV 22 no 1-4: Rondeau (1)
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Divertissement no 1 (1)
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Divertissement no 2 (2)
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Dixit Dominus, LWV 77 no 3 (1)
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Domine salvum fac regem, LWV 77 no 4 (1)
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Exaudi Deus deprecationem, LWV 77 no 5 (1)
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Exaudiat, LWV 77 no 15 (2)
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Flore, LWV 40 (1)
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Flore, LWV 40: Ah, quelle cruaute (1)
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Flore, LWV 40: Marche (1)
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Gavotte (3)
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Gavotte en rondeau for Keyboard in D minor (1)
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George Dandin, LWV 38 (1)
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George Dandin, LWV 38: Ah, mortelle douleur (1)
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George Dandin, LWV 38: Chantons tous de l'Amour (1)
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George Dandin, LWV 38: Laisse-nous en repos, Philène! (1)
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Gigue(s) (1)
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Gigues (1)
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Idylle sur la paix: Air pour Madame la Dauphine (1)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12 (1)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Air pour les docteurs, Frivelins et Polichinelles (1)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Air pour les esclaves dansants (1)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Air pour les esclaves et singes dansants (1)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Air pour les mesmes (1)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Air pour les Paysans et Paysanes (2)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Air pour les postures de Scaramouche (2)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Air pour matelots jouant des trompettes marines (1)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Bourée pour les Basques (2)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Ouverture (1)
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Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Rigaudon en Tambourin (2)
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Isis, LWV 54 (1)
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Isis, LWV 54: Aimez, profitez du temps (2)
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Isis, LWV 54: Air de trembleurs (1)
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Isis, LWV 54: Entrée d'Apollon (1)
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Isis, LWV 54: Entrée d'Isis (1)
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Isis, LWV 54: Excerpt(s) (2)
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Isis, LWV 54: Je vous aime... Je ne puis vous quitter (1)
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Isis, LWV 54: Scene 1 - Prologue (1)
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Isis, LWV 54: Scène des forges (2)
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Isis, LWV 54: Scène du froid (3)
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L'amour médecin, LWV 29: Chaconne (5)
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L'amour médecin, LWV 29: Excerpt(s) (1)
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L'amour médecin, LWV 29: Quittons notre vaine querelle (1)
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La Contredance (1)
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La grotte de Versailles, LWV 39 (1)
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La grottte de Versailles LVW 39 : Overture (1)
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La naissance de Vénus, LWV 27: Dieu des enfers (1)
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La pastorale comique, LWV 33: Scene 2 (1)
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La princess d'Elide, LWV 22 no 5-22 (1)
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La princess d'Elide, LWV 22: Chère Climène, dis-moi (1)
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La raillerie, ballet, LWV 11: L'un dell'altro ognun si burla (1)
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Laudate pueri Dominum, LWV 77 no 7 (3)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43 (3)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Air (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Bel temp che vola (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Bourée/Galliarde (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Canarie (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Chaconne (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Chaconne des Scaramouches (3)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Cinquième entrée (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Di rigori armata il seno (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Giourdina (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Interlude no 1 (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: L'entrée des Scaramouches (2)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: La cérémonie des Turcs (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs (8)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Overture (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Sarabande pour une femme (1)
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43: Suite (2)
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Le Divertissement Royal - Rondeau du Mariage forcé (1)
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Le Retour de Paris (1)
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Le temps, LWV 1: Air pour l'Esté et ses suivants (1)
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Le triomphe de l'amour, LWV 59 (2)
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Le triomphe de l'amour, LWV 59: Act 4, Scene 2 - Deuxième air (1)
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Le triomphe de l'amour, LWV 59: Air d'Apollon (1)
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Le triomphe de l'amour, LWV 59: Entrée d'Apollon (3)
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Le triomphe de l'amour, LWV 59: Overture (1)
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Le triomphe de l'amour, LWV 59: Prélude de la nuit (2)
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Les Airs de Trompettes, Timbales et Hautbois (3)
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Les Amants Magnifiques, for organ solo: Marche (1)
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Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42: Entrée d'Apollon (1)
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Les amants magnifiques, LWV 42: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Les amours déguisés, LWV 21: Ah, Rinaldo, e dove sei? (1)
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Les arts, ballet, LWV 18 (1)
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Les divertissemens (8) des vieux ballets: Le Divertissement Royale [1664-70] (4)
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Les folies d'Espagne (1)
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Les muses, LWV 32: Trop indiscret Amour (1)
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Les noces de village, LWV 19 (1)
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Les noces de village, LWV 19: Sarabande (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Air pour le vieillard et sa famille (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Bourrée pour les coutisans (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Entrée no 1 (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Entrée no 2 (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Gavotte pour les satyres (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Gavotte pour les Suisses (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Overture (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Overture no 2 (1)
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Les plaisirs, LWV 2: Sarabande (2)
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Les Saisons, LVW 15: Pavanes des saisons (1)
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Marche des Mousquetaires (3)
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Marche militaire (1)
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Marche royale (1)
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Mascarade: Overture (2)
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Menuet et Arioso (1)
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Minuet in D minor (1)
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Miserere, LWV 25 (6)
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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV 41: Répands, charmante nuit (2)
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Notus in Judea, LWV 77 no 17 (2)
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O dulcissime Domine, LWV 77 no 9 (3)
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O lachrymae, LWV 26 (2)
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O sapientia in misterio, LWV 77 no 11 (1)
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Omnes gentes (1)
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Persée, LWV 60 (2)
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Persée, LWV 60: Air final (1)
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Persée, LWV 60: Entrée des divinités infernales (1)
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Persée, LWV 60: Entrée des nymphes guerrières (1)
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Persée, LWV 60: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Persée, LWV 60: Gigue (1)
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Persée, LWV 60: Je ne puis en votre malheur (1)
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Persée, LWV 60: Marche pour les suivants de la fortune (2)
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Persée, LWV 60: O tranquille sommeil (2)
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Persée, LWV 60: Troisième air des jeux junoniens (1)
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Phaëton, LWV 61 (1)
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Phaëton, LWV 61: Chaconne in G major (3)
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Phaëton, LWV 61: Troupe d'Astrée dansante (1)
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Phaëton, LWV 61:Excerpt(s) (1)
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Plaude laetare, LWV 37 (2)
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Prosperine, LWV 58 (1)
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Psyché, LWV 45 (1)
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Psyché, LWV 45: Chantons les plaisirs charmants (2)
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Psyché, LWV 45: Deh, piangete (2)
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Psyché, LWV 45: Plainte italienne (1)
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Psyché, LWV 45: Prélude pour les trompettes (3)
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Quare fremuerunt, LWV 67 (2)
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Regina coeli, LWV 77 no 12 (1)
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Rigaudon de Louis XIV (1)
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Roland, LWV 65 (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Ah! j'attendrai longtemps...Je suis descendu dans la nuit du tombeau (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Chaconne (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Dans nos climats sans chagrin on soupire (Air des deux insulaires) (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Gigue à deux (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Gigue pour homme (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Je suis trahi! Ciel! (Air de Roland) (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Menuet d'Aubois (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Overture (2)
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Roland, LWV 65: Par le secours d'une douce harmonie (Air de Logistille) (1)
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Roland, LWV 65: Ritournelle des Fées (2)
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Salve regina (1)
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Salve regina, LWV 77 no 13 (1)
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Sarabande (2)
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Te Deum, LWV 55 (4)
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Te Deum, LWV 55: Symphonie (2)
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Thésée, LWV 51 (1)
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Thésée, LWV 51: Descent of Mars (1)
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Thésée, LWV 51: Excerpt(s) (2)
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Thésée, LWV 51: March (1)
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Thésée, LWV 51: Overture (2)
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Thésée, LWV 51: Revenez amours, revenez (1)
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Tout ce que j'attaque se rend (1)
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Trios (18) pour le coucher du roi, LWV 35: Chaconne (1)
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Trios (18) pour le coucher du roi, LWV 35: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Trios (18) pour le coucher du roi, LWV 35: Galliarde (2)
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Trios (18) pour le coucher du roi, LWV 35: Gavotte (1)
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Trios (18) pour le coucher du roi, LWV 35: Menuet (2)
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Trios (18) pour le coucher du roi, LWV 35: Passacaille (1)
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Trios (18) pour le coucher du roi, LWV 35: Sarabande (2)
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Trios (18) pour le coucher du roi, LWV 35: Symphonie (2)
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Work(s) (1)
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Biography |
by Bruce Lundgren
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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. |
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