Jean Baptiste Lully  (1632-1687)
Last updated: 09.10.23
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. Wet into service of Louis XIV, 1652; naturalised French, 1661; achieved the supreme musical position at court, 1662. Himself a dancer, collaborated with Molière in comedy ballets; from 1663 wrote operas. Wrote also church music, dance music, etc., and established the "French Overture". 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.
Websites:
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book15.gif  A Thematic Locator for the Works of Jean Baptiste Lully Bruce Gustafson flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif
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Recorder Music CDs:
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Recorder Sheet Music
Suite Bellerophon (D/Piano)smp_logo_88_white.gif
12 pages.
This edition: ED12240.
Arr./Editor: Beechey
Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49003058)
Suite from Ballet des Saisons (D/Piano)smp_logo_88_white.gif
16 pages.
This edition: ED 12278.
Arr./Editor: Gwilym Beechey Level: 3
Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49003083)
Ballet Music from the Court of Louis XVI (A/A/BC)smp_logo_88_white.gif
24 pages.
This edition: EP1011.
Arr./Editor: Paul M. Douglas
Publisher: Fentone Music Ltd (44002951)
12 Pieces from Persée (D/Piano)smp_unav15.gif
Arr./Editor: Beechey Level: Easy-Medium
Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49030342)
Suite: Thesee (D(A)/BC)smp_unav15.gif
Score.
and parts For S/A Recorder or Flute and Basso Continuo.
Publisher: Loux Music Publishing Co. (LMP0133)
9 Trios (D/D/Guit.)smp_unav15.gif
Arr./Editor: R. Herrera
Publisher: Editions Aug. Zurfluh (524044730)
Les Trios des Opera (D/D/A)smp_unav15.gif
Score.
Arr./Editor: Mönkemeyer
Publisher: Moeck Verlag (MK00377)
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youtube15.jpg J.B. Lully Han Tol Recorder Consort Workshop Lully Chaconne from Phaeton 1683 (7:27) Han Tol
youtube15.jpg J.B. Lully Recorder Romp (1:52) The Perth Recorder Orchestra