List of compositions by Jean-Baptiste Lully

List of compositions by Jean-Baptiste Lully

This page contains a list of the works of Jean-Baptiste Lully; also lists of the dance-forms and instruments he frequently used.

Lully's Works

Operas (Tragédies en musique)

*"Cadmus et Hermione" (1673)
*"Alceste" (1674)
*"Thésée" (1675)
*"Atys" (1676)
*"Isis" (1677)
*"Psyché" (1678)
*"Bellérophon" (1679)
*"Proserpine" (1680)
*"Persée" (1682)
*"Phaëton" (1683)
*"Amadis" (1684)
*"Roland" (1685)
*"Armide" (1686)
*"Achille et Polyxène" (1687) (Finished by Pascal Collasse)

Pastorales

*"Pastorale Comique" (1657}
*"Les Fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus" (1672)
*"Acis et Galatée" (1686)

Ballets

*"Alcidiane" (1658)
*"La Raillerie" (1659)
*"La Revente des habits du ballet et comédie" (1661)
*"L'Impatience" (1661)
*"Les Saisons" (1661)
*"Les Arts" (1663)
*"Les Noces de village" (1663)
*"Les Amours desguisés" (1664)
*"Palais d'Alcine" (1664)
*"Le Naissance de Vénus" (1665)
*"Les Gardes" (1665)
*"Mascarade du Capitaine" (1665)
*"Petit Ballet de Fontainebleau" (1665)
*"Les Muses" (1666)
*"Le Carnaval" (1668)
*"Flore" (1669)
*"La Jeunesse" (1669)
*"Les Jeux pythiens" (1670)
*"Ballet des Nations" (1670) in "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme written by Molière"
*"Le Triomphe de l'Amour" (1681)
*"Le Temple de la paix" (1685)

Ballets cowritten with Lully

*"Mascarade de la Foire de St-Germain" (1652)
*"La Nuit" (1653)
*"Les Proverbes" (1654)
*"Le Temps" (1654)
*"Les Plaisirs" (1655)
*"Les Bienvenus" (1655)
*"Psyché ou la Puissance de l'Amour" (1656)
*"Les Galanteries du temps" (1657)
*"Les Plaisirs troublés" (1657)
*"Le Triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes" (1666)

Comedies (Comédies)

*"L'Impromptu de Versailles" (1663)
*"Le Mariage forcé" (1664)
*"L'Amour médecin" (1665)
*"Le Sicilien" (1667)
*"Georges Dandin" (1668)
*"Monsieur de Pourceaugnac" (1669)
*"Les Amants Magnifiques" (1670)
*"La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas" (1671)

Comedies cowritten with Lully

*"Les Fâcheux" (1661)

Tragédie-ballets

*"Psyché" (1671)

Eclogues (Églogues)

*"La Grotte de Versailles" (1668)

Interludes (Intermèdes)

*"Les Noces de Pélée et de Thétis" (1654)
*"Xerxes" (1660)
*"Hercule amoureux" (1662)
*"Oedipe" (1664)

Grands Motets

*"Jubilate Deo" (1660)
*"Miserere" (1663)
*"O lachrymae" (1664)
*"Plaude laetare Gallia" (1668)
*"Te Deum" (1677)
*"De profundis" (1683)
*"Dies irae" (1683)
*"Benedictus" (before 1684)
*"Exaudiat te Dominus" (after 1684)
*"Notus in Judaea Deus" (after 1684)
*"Quare fremuerunt" (1685)

Petits Motets

*"Anima Christi"
*"Ave Coeli"
*"Dixit Dominus"
*"Domine Salvum Regem"
*"Exaudi Deus"
*"Laudate Pueri"
*"O Dulcissime"
*"Omnes Gentes"
*"O Sapientia"
*"Regina Coeli"
*"Salve Regina"

Other works

*"Dialogue de la Guerre avec la Paix" (1655)
*"Première marche des mousquetaires" (1658)
*"Courage, Amour, la Paix est faite" (1661)
*"Douce et Charmante Paix" (1661)
*"Ingrate Bergère" (1664)
*"Qui les saura, mes secrètes amours" (1664)
*"Branles" (1665)
*"Trios pour le coucher du roi" (1665)
*"Belle inhumaine, soulagez la peine" (1665)
*"Savez-vous bien, la belle" (1665)
*"La langueur des beaux yeux" (1666)
*"Que vous connaissez peu trop aimable Climène" (1666)
*"Si je n'ai parlé de ma flamme" (1666)
*"En ces lieux, je ne vois que des promenades" (1668)
*"Ah, qu'il est doux de se rendre à l'empire de l'Amour" (1668)
*"Le printemps ramène la verdure" (1668)
*"Depuis que l'on soupire sous l'amoureux empire" (1668)
*"Marches et batteries de tambour" (1670)
*"Sans mentir on est bien misérable" (1671)
*"Marche" (1672)
*"Marches pour le régiment de Savoie" (1685)
*"Pièces de symphonies, Airs pour Mme la Dauphine" (1683)
*"Airs pour le Carrousel de Monseigneur" (1686)
*"Il faut mourir, pécheur" (1687)
*"Gigue"
*"Marches dont la Marche des Dragons du Roi, la Marche du Prince d'Orange"
*"Aunque prodigoas"
*"Soca per tutti"
*"A la fin petit Desfarges"
*"D'un beau pêcheur, la pêche malheureuse"
*"Un tendre coeur"
*"Non vi è più bel piacer"
*"Le printemps, aimable Sylvie"
*"Tous les jours cent bergères"
*"Viens, mon aimable bergère"
*"Où êtes-vous allées, mes belles amourettes"
*"Nous mêlons toute notre gloire"
*"Pendant que ces flambeaux"
*"J'ai perdu l'appétit"
*"Venerabilis barba capucinorum"

Apocryphal composition

French sources widely attribute to Lully the composition of the British patriotic anthem God Save the Queen: the sole ultimate source of the attribution is a 19th-century forgery, the "Souvenirs" of the Marquise de Créquy (q.v.).


=French court dances of the 17th Century=

These are the dances featured prominently in Lully's ballets and later in his operas:
*Allemande
*Bourée
*Bransles
*Canaries
*Chaconne
*Courante
*Gaillarde
*Gavotte
*Gigue
*Loure
*Menuet
*Passacaille
*Passepied
*Pavane
*Rigaudon
*Saltarelle
*Sarabande

Instrumentation

Lully's instrumentation is varied and typical of the time period. He introduced the oboe and bassoon as a regular members of the orchestra. Here is a list of the instruments typically used in his music:
*violins, five sizes/voices: (dessus de violon, haute-contre de violon, taille de violon, quinte de violon, basse de violon), close to one voice of violins, three voices of violas, and cello (violoncello))
*basse de viole (viola da gamba)
*baroque guitar
*lute
*archlute
*theorbo
*harpsichord
*organ
*oboe
*bassoon
*recorder
*flute
*brass (baroque trumpet, natural horn)
*percussion (castanets, timpani)


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