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Stage Name

Birth Name

Jean Baptsiste Lully

Giovanni Battista Lulli
    Lully was borne in Arno, Italy (some say Florence.) Lully was a dancing master of court, a comic and a composer of music in the 17th Century. At age fourteen came to the French Court from Italy in 1646 and became a teacher of the Italian language as well as a violinists. Lully's band was known as the Petitis Violins du Roi (The Petite Band.) The King was impressed with him and made him a Valet de Chamber to which he composed many Spectacles (Ballets) for the King, working with Molière on a majority of them such as The ballets de cour (1653-63) and the comédies-ballets (1663-72) were performed as royal entertainments with king Louis himself often taking part in the dancing. In 1654 he composed music for the Le Ballet de la Galanteri du Temps as well as many others.

    In 1672, Lully became the director of the 'Academie Royale de Music' and composed many spectacles with Molière, many of which set the Stage for the ballet today. French type of opera known as tragédie lyrique, between 1673 and 1686 (tragédie lyrique, Bellérophon, Achille et Polyxène.) While conducting a Te Deum in Paris to celebrate the king's recovery from a serious illness, he stabbed a cane into his foot, and died from infection.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring
Arno, Italy 11/29/1632 - 5/22/1687 Madeleine Lambert (1662) n/a
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners etc.

Music Titles
Allemande (Dauphine, the) Marche Gay (Baroque)
Ballet (Spectacles) King Louis XIV $ Jean Baptiste Lully- ATYS
Bourree L' Estang      
Canaries Louis Guillayme Pe'cour      
Chaconne(Chacoon) Marie-Therese de Subligny      
Courante Mlle. de la Fontaine      
entree grave Pierre Beauchamps      
Espagnoles Molière      
Galliard            
Gavotte            
Gigue            
Loure (Gigue Lente)            
Minuet(Danses a' deux)            
Passacailles            
Passepied            
Rigaudon            
Sarabande            
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage
n/a French Court of King XIV n/a
      Versailles      
 

Lully Ballets
1654 - Le Ballet de la Galanterie du temps 1666 - Le triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes 1677 - Te Deum
1658 - ballets d' Alcidiane 1667 - Le Sicilian 1679 - Bellerophon
1659 - ballets de la raillerie 1668 - Le Carnival, ou Masquerade de Versailles 1680 - Prosperine
1660 - ballet de Xerxes 1668 - Georges Dandin 1681 - Le triomphe de L'Amour
1661 - ballets de l'impatience 1668 - Plaude Laetar 1682 - Persee
1661 - ballet des saisons 1669 - ballet de Flore 1683 - Phaeton (Opera)
1661 - ballet de l'Ercole amante 1669 - Monsieur de Pourceaugnac 1684 - Amadis de Gaule
1663 - Ballet des arts 1670 - Les amants magnifique 1684 - Motefs (sic)for Two
1663 - ballet des Noces de villages 1670 - Le Bourgeois Gentlehomme 1685 - ballet Le temple de la paix
1664 - ballet des amours deguisés 1670 - Le Divertissement Royale 1686 - Armide et Renaud
1664 - Le Marriage Force 1671 - ballets des ballets 1686 - Acis et Galathee
1664 - la Princess d'Elide 1671 - Psyche      
1664 - Entr'actes for Corneilles Oedipe 1673 - Cadimus et Hermione      
1665 - ballet La Naissance de Venus 1674 - Alceste, ou le triomphe d'Alcide      
1665 - Ballets des Nardes 1675 - Thesee (Opera)      
1665 - L'Amour médecin 1676 - Atys      
1666 - Ballet de muses 1677 - Isis      
 

Films

Television

(Other)
'Le Roi Danse' n/a n/a
                 
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