Jean-baptiste lully major compositions

Jean-Baptiste de Lully (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃batist də lyˈli]; Italian: Giovanni Battista di Lulli) (29 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born, French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France.

Jean-baptiste lully nationality

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 1661.

Biography

Lully, son of a poor miller, was born in Florence, Italy.

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 1646, 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 o