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Jean-Baptiste Lully and French court music under Louis XIV (1661–1687)

Jean-Baptiste Lully and French court music under Louis XIV (1661–1687)

  1. Lully becomes royal court composer

    Labels: Jean-Baptiste Lully, French court

  2. Lully appointed Surintendant of royal music

    Labels: Surintendant de, Royal Chambre

  3. Lully receives letters of naturalization

    Labels: Naturalization, Jean-Baptiste Lully

  4. Louis XIV begins personal rule

    Labels: Louis XIV, Personal rule

  5. Académie Royale de Danse is founded

    Labels: Acad mie, Louis XIV

  7. Psyché premieres as a royal machines spectacle

    Labels: Psych, Salle des

  9. Cadmus et Hermione launches tragédie en musique

    Labels: Cadmus et, Trag die

  10. Atys premieres for the royal court

    Labels: Atys, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

  11. Isis premieres amid court controversy

    Labels: Isis, Court controversy

  14. Lully receives letters of nobility

    Labels: Letters of, Jean-Baptiste Lully

  15. Armide premieres at the Paris Opéra

    Labels: Armide, Th tre

  16. Lully injured while directing a Te Deum

    Labels: Conducting injury, Te Deum