Definition of Jean Baptiste Lully

1. Noun. French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687).

Exact synonyms: Giambattista Lulli, Lulli, Lully
Generic synonyms: Composer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Frederic Joliot
Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean Anouilh
Jean Antoine Watteau
Jean Arp
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean Baptiste Lully (current term)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Jean Bernoulli
Jean Caulvin
Jean Cauvin
Jean Chauvin
Jean Cocteau
Jean Edouard Vuillard
Jean Francois Champollion
Jean Francois Millet
Jean Genet
Jean Giraudoux
Jean Harlow

Literary usage of Jean Baptiste Lully

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"... believed that the man who dared to make such a reply was irretrievably lost ; and when " Armide " was given at the Royal Acad- Jean Baptiste Lully. ..."

2. The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart (1875)
"... in order to allude to another Violinist who considerably influenced the progress of the leading instrument out of Italy, viz., Jean Baptiste Lully. ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"About 1660 Count Mazarin transplanted it to France, where, in the hands of Jean Baptiste Lully,1 an Italian by birth, but a thorough Frenchman in spirit, ..."

4. The Musical World (1862)
"Jean Baptiste Lully, OR LULL!, who, though Florentine by birth, spent nearly all his life in France at the Court of Louie XIV., being at the head of that ..."

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