Jean baptiste lully biography of alberta state

He is considered the chief master of Baroque French style and he disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in Lully, son of a poor miller, was born in Florence , Italy.

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Lully had little education, but he learned basic techniques on the guitar , originally taught by a Franciscan friar of Florence. Later in France, he learned how to play the violin , and to dance. In , he was discovered by Roger de Lorraine, the chevalier de Guise, son of Charles, Duke of Guise , and was taken to France , where he entered the services of Mademoiselle de Montpensier la Grande Mademoiselle as a scullery -boy and Italian-language teacher.

With the help of this princess, his talent increased. It has been said that a scurrilous song on his patroness the doggerel he set to music refers to a "sigh" she produced while at stool resulted in his dismissal. It is far more likely that he did not want to moulder out in the provinces with the exiled princess. He came into Louis XIV's service in late , early as a dancer.

He composed some music for the Ballet de la nuit , which pleased the king immensely. He was appointed as the composer of instrumental music to the king, conducting twenty-four violins of the Grande Bande large band. Lully composed many ballets for the King during the s and s, in which the King and Lully himself danced.

Louis XIV's interest in ballet waned as he aged, and his dancing ability declined his last performance was in and so Lully pursued opera. He bought the privilege for opera from Pierre Perrin and, with the backing of Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the king, created a new privilege which essentially gave Lully complete control of all music performed in France until his death in He was known to be a libertine.

In , in letters of naturalization and in his marriage contract to Madeleine Lambert, daughter of Lully's friend and fellow musician Michel Lambert , Giovanni Battista Lulli declared himself as "'Jean-Baptiste de Lully, escuyer' son of 'Laurent de Lully, gentilhomme Florentin'".