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    Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The French-language libretto is by Philippe...
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  • Misanthrope by Molière Alceste (Lully), a 1674 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully Alceste (Handel), a 1750 opera by George Frideric Handel Alceste (Gluck), a 1767...
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    sons (Louis Lully, Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, and Jean-Louis Lully) had musical careers as successive surintendants of the King's Music. Lully himself was...
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  • Polyxène, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pascal Collasse, 1687 Acis and Galatea, George Frideric Handel, 1718 Acis et Galatée, Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1686 Actéon, Marc-Antoine...
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    Verzeichnis sämtlicher Werke von Jean-Baptiste Lully). Cadmus et Hermione (1673) Alceste (1674) Thésée (1675) Atys (1676) Isis (1677) Psyché (1678)...
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    Alcestis (/ælˈsɛstɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκηστις, Álkēstis) or Alceste, was a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her husband. Her life story...
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    all, thirteen of Lully's tragédie en musique were performed there (see the list of compositions by Jean-Baptiste Lully). After Lully died (in 1687), the...
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  • be well observed". Examples of loures are found in the works of Lully (e.g., Alceste), Rameau (e.g. Les Indes galantes) and of Bach (e.g.: French Suite...
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    2017 – Palazzetto Bru Zane [2] Armide (Lully), 2015 – Aparté Pygmalion (Rameau), 2017 – Aparté Alceste (Lully), 2017 – Aparté Les Horaces (Salieri), 2018...
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    transferred the privilege of producing operas from Perrin to Jean-Baptiste Lully. Lully, a Florentine, was already the favourite musician of the king, who had...
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    such as demons (Alceste) and nightmares (Atys). Their association with African dances is even stated in the ballet Flore (1669) by Lully, "... les Africains...
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    genre known as opera, collaborating with composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. After Alceste (1674) was denounced by traditionalists who rejected it for deviating...
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    Hermione (1674), Alceste ou le Triomphe d'Alcide (1674), Thesée (1675), Atys (1676), one of his best pieces, and Isis (1677). Alceste was received very...
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  • Indes galantes, music by Rameau 1736: Les Voyages de l'amour, music by Boismortier 1739: Alceste, music by Lully Michel Blondy on Data.bnf.fr v t e v t e...
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    of rondo form come from Italian opera, the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, who is sometimes referred to as the father of the rondo or rondeau form...
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    Pomone (opera, 1671) L'Impatience (1661) La Naissance de Vénus (1665) Alceste (1674) Atys (1676) Isis (1677) Le Triomphe de l'amour, avec Pécour (1681)...
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  • lyric tragedy), is a genre of French opera introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and used by his followers until the second half of the eighteenth century...
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  • Pheres Plays The Cocktail Party Operas Alceste (Lully, 1674) Admeto (Handel, 1727) Alceste (Gluck, 1767) Alceste (Schweitzer, 1773) The Alcestiad (Talma...
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  • Ténèbres; with Louis Devos; Lully's Atys with William Christie; Lully's Armide with Philippe Herreweghe; Lully's Alceste, Rameau's Castor et Pollux and...
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    plot is based on the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. Lully, Handel and Traetta, to name but a few, had already composed operas based...
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  • new musical score for Philippe Quinault's libretto Alceste, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1674. Floquet's version was rehearsed but then rejected...
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    roles in Atys by Lully, at the Opéra-Comique, Florence and New York in 1987, 1989 and 1992. He was also Straton in Alceste by Lully at Versailles and...
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    (opera Les amours de Ragonde), Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully (opera Phaëton at Opéra National de Lyon) and Jean-Philippe Rameau (opera...
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    composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading...
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  • provided choruses for operas staged by the London Opera Centre, including Lully's Alceste and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, which was performed at Sadler's Wells...
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  • Beauchamps, whom Lully engaged for the 'ballets ordinaires', who composed the ballets of the infernal scenes of Psyché and Alceste. It was also d'Olivet...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Lully – La pastorale comique, LWV 33 Wolfgang Carl Briegel – Das verliebte Gespenst Jean-Baptiste Lully Cadmus et Hermione Alceste Antonio Sartorio...
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  • first appears in the court ballet and operatic overtures of Jean-Baptiste Lully, which he elaborated from a similar, two-section form called Ouverture,...
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  • Aparté Jean-Baptiste Lully, Alceste (opéra), 2017 - Aparté Jean-Baptiste Lully, Isis (opéra), 2019 - Aparté Jean-Baptiste Lully, Psyché (opera), 2023...
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    privilege passed to Jean-Baptiste Lully, a composer of Florentine origin (his real name was Giovanni Battista Lulli). Lully adapted opera to French taste...
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