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Search What's New Classical CD Reviews Live Reviews ... Contact Us Classical CD and DVD reviews. MusicWeb is not a subscription site and it is our advertisers that pay for it. Please visit their sites regularly to see if anything might interest you. Purchasing from them keeps MusicWeb free. Classical Editor: Rob Barnett Founder Len Mullenger LULLY, Jean-Baptiste
b Florence, 29 November 1632
d Paris, 22 March 1687, aged fifty-four He was the son of a Florentine miller. At fourteen he became valet de chambre to Mlle de Montpensier, cousin of the Chevalier de Guise. Between his arrival in France and 1652 he studied composition; then he left de Montpensier for the court, where he made his mark not only as a musician but also as a dancer. He became a favourite of Louis XIV, producing for him a stream of ballets - usually in collaboration with Moliere - until 1671. He became a naturalised Frenchman in 1661 and married in 1662. His association with Moliere ended when Lully pressed the king to award him a series of patents which gave him complete monopoly and domination of the Parisian theatre. While conducting a Te Deum to celebrate the king's recovery from a serious illness, he stabbed a cane into his foot, and died from the subsequent infection. | |
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