Lulli

So the picture hangs on four grim faces – Yves Montand, Folco Lulli, Charles Vanel and Peter van Eyck.

The Wages of Fear: No 8 David Thomson 2010

The word Academy became so celebrated that when Lulli, who was a sort of favorite, obtained the establishment of his

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Humility could not prevent Rousseau from believing that he knew more of music than those to whom he taught it; but it could induce him to believe that he was not superior to Lulli in recitative.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

King, the national air of England, is a tune written by Lulli for the Chorus of Esther or of Athalie.

Albert Savarus 2007

Quinalt with the ears of Lulli, and to the airs and accompaniments with those of Rameau.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It is true that Lulli obtained in 1672, long before the opera of Isis was performed, letters permitting him to establish his opera, in which letters he got it inserted that

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

King, the national air of England, is a tune written by Lulli for the Chorus of Esther or of Athalie.

Albert Savarus 2007

Lulli, who never heard any good musician in France, had a genius for music.

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The symphonies of Rameau are superior to those of Lulli, but appear less easy.

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I cannot better compare this kind of singing, this modulation, than to the admirable recitative of Lulli, criticised by adorers of double crochets, who have no knowledge of the genius of our language, and who are ignorant what help this melody furnishes to an ingenious and sensible actor.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007