November 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lully (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 28th are here: Jean-Baptiste Lully (2019), Anton Rubinstein (2020), and Paul Shaffer; Ferdinand Ries (2021)

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Jean-Baptiste Lully (28 November [O.S. 18 November] 1632– 22 March 1687) was the greatest and most influential musician working in the mid-17th century French court.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomato-Tomahto

 

(UK: /ˈlʊli/ LUUL-ee, US: /luːˈliː/ loo-LEE, French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lyli];) -- Wikipedia

 

While here we say his name loo-LEE,

   The stubborn British say it LOOL-ee;

The French are right when they decree

   That neither faction says it truly.

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Baroque Best

The opera as heard in France

Had song, of course, but also dance,

And spectacle, to please the King,

Who doted on that sort of thing.

And no one did the style more truly

Than it was done by J.-B. Lully.

 

 

 

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