Canon
Where to start with Lully
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
StageLe bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV43
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Chamber55 Pieces for Orchestra, LWV75
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KeyboardAllemande, for keyboard
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VocalBenedictus, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV64/2
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StageAcis et Galatée, LWV73
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StageAlceste, ou le triomphe d’Alcide, LWV50
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StageAlcidiane, LWV9 — Ballet
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StageAmadis, LWV63
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StageAmour malade, LWV8 — Ballet
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StageArmide, LWV71
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StageAtys, LW53
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StageBellérophon, LWV57
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StageCadmus et Hermione, LWV49 — Opera
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KeyboardConcert donne au souper du roy, for keyboard
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KeyboardCourante, for keyboard
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Lully's catalogueMost Popular
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Armide (opera)
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Atys (opera)
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Te Deum in D major
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March for the Turkish Ceremony (from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)
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Alceste (opera)
Most Acclaimed
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Atys
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Armide
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Ballet de cour music
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Alceste
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Psyché (tragédie en musique)
Most Weird
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Armidethe sorceress is about to kill a sleeping knight, then falls in love with him instead; Act II Scene 5 is one of the most harmonically intense scenes in 17th-century French opera
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Te DeumLully died of gangrene after stabbing his own toe with his conducting staff while beating time on the floor; he refused amputation
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AtysLouis XIV’s favorite opera — ”the King’s opera”; Atys is transformed into a pine tree in the finale
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Psychécollaborative with Corneille and Molière — unusual creative triangle
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Le Triomphe de l\’Amourthe first French opera-ballet with female dancers — revolutionary
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 59
- Stage
- Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV43
- Acis et Galatée, LWV73
- Alceste, ou le triomphe d’Alcide, LWV50
- Alcidiane, LWV9 — Ballet
- Amadis, LWV63
- Amour malade, LWV8 — Ballet
- Armide, LWV71
- Atys, LW53
- Bellérophon, LWV57
- Cadmus et Hermione, LWV49 — Opera
- Divertissement
- Flore, LWV40 — Ballet
- Isis, LWV54 — Opera
- L' Amour médecin, LWV29
- La raillerie, LWV11 — Ballet
- Le Grand Divertissement Royal de Versailles, LWV38
- Le Sicilen, ou L'Amour peintre, LWV34
- Le carnival, mascarade royale, LWV36 — Ballet
- Le mariage forcé, LWV20
- Le triomphe de l’amour, LWV59 — Ballet
- Les amours déguisés, LWV21 — Ballet
- Les noces de village, LWV19 — Ballet
- Les plaisirs, LWV2 — Ballet
- Les temps, LWV1 — Ballet
- Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, LWV41
- Persée, LWV60 — Opera
- Phaëton, LWV61 — Opera
- Proserpine, LWV58 — Opera
- Psyché, LWV45
- Psyché, LWV56 — Opera
- Roland, LWV65 — Opera
- Thésée, LWV51
- Xerxès, LWV12
- Chamber
- 55 Pieces for Orchestra, LWV75
- Gavotte en rondeau
- Gavotte, for violin and piano
- Marche Militaire, for brass ensemble
- Passacaglia, for cello and keyboard
- Pièces de symphonie, Noce de village, Airs pour Mme la dauphine, LWV70
- Trios pour le coucher du Roi, for 2 violins and continuo, LWV35
- Keyboard
- Allemande, for keyboard
- Concert donne au souper du roy, for keyboard
- Courante, for keyboard
- Gigue, for keyboard
- Vocal
- Benedictus, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV64/2
- De profundis, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV62
- Dies irae, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV64/1
- Exaudiat Te Dominus
- Laudate pueri Dominum, for 3 voices and continuo, LWV77/7
- Miserere, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV25
- Natus in Judæa Deus, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV77/17
- O dulcissime Domine, for 3 voices and continuo, LWV77/9
- O lachrymae, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV26
- Plaude lætare, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV37
- Quare fremuerunt, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV67
- Scoca pur tutti, for voice, violin and continuo, LWV 76/3
- Te Deum, for double chorus and orchestra, LWV55
- Tout ce que j'attaque se rend
- Venerabilis barba capucinorum, LWV76/xxvi