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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).
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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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