![]() ![]() In 1646, dressed as Harlequin during Mardi Gras and amusing bystanders with his clowning and his violin, the boy attracted the attention of Roger de Lorraine, chevalier de Guise, son of Charles, Duke of Guise, who was returning to France and was looking for someone to converse in Italian with his niece, Mademoiselle de Montpensier ( la Grande Mademoiselle). He used to say that a Franciscan friar gave him his first music lessons and taught him guitar. His general education and his musical training during his youth in Florence remain uncertain, but his adult handwriting suggests that he manipulated a quill pen with ease. Lully was born on November 28, 1632, in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to Lorenzo Lulli and Caterina Del Sera, a Tuscan family of millers. He was a close friend of the playwright Molière, with whom he collaborated on numerous comédie-ballets, including L'Amour médecin, George Dandin ou le Mari confondu, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Psyché and his best known work, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.īiography Pinckney Marcius-Simons, The Young Lulli, by 1888. ![]() Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France and became a French subject in 1661. Jean-Baptiste Lully ( UK: / ˈ l ʊ l i/ LUUL-ee, US: / l uː ˈ l iː/ loo- LEE, French: born Giovanni Battista Lulli, Italian: 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian naturalized French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. ![]()
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