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6 unusual facts about Lully


Chronomètre of Loulié

Loulié's allusions to the airs of Jean Baptiste de Lully are particularly meaningful within the broader context of Loulié's business activities.

:Second, those who are very familiar with the airs of Monsieur de Lully and other airs of this sort, neglect or even look down upon other types of music.

Divertissement

In the operas of Lully these 'divertissements' were sometimes linked to the main plot, or performed at the close of the performance.

Francesco Foggia

For example, while he never worked in France, 7 of Foggia's motets survive in a collection by Danican Philidor, along with motets by Carissimi, Daniel Danielis, Pierre Robert and Lully.

Regina Coeli

Lully's motet “Regina coeli, laetare” was written in 1684.

Yvon Repérant

He was the lead continuo player for Les Arts Florissants from 1979, the date of the founding of the ensemble, till the famous 1987 production of Lully's Atys at the Opéra Comique.


Idyll

Examples of the latter are Lully's L'Idylle sur la Paix set to a text by Racine and Desmarets' Idylle sur la naissance du duc de Bourgogne set to a text by Antoinette Deshoulières.

Le Roi danse

The King is Dancing (Le Roi danse) is a 2000 costume drama by Belgian filmmaker Gérard Corbiau based on Philippe Beaussant's biography of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lully ou le musicien du soleil (1992).

Paris Opera Ballet

Of particular importance were the series of comédies-ballets created by Molière with, among others, the choreographers and composers Pierre Beauchamps and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Quinault Pass

The feature was photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1960, it was named in association with the nearby Lully Foothills by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1977, after the French dramatist Philippe Quinault, (1635-1688).

Rachel Yakar

Her repertory included Mozart's Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni, and First Lady from The Magic Flute; Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Rameau's Aricia; Jean-Baptiste Lully's Climène from Phaëton, Leclair's Circé in Scylla et Glaucus; Arthur Honegger's Diane from Les aventures du roi Pausole and Francis Poulenc's Madame Lidoine from Dialogues of the Carmelites.


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