Jean-Baptiste Lully

France, 1653–1687

Louis XIV's composer — the Florentine who invented French opera (tragédie en musique), the French overture and the disciplined court orchestra that Europe imitated for a century.

MusicRoots documents 0 artists who influenced Jean-Baptiste Lully and 3 artists Jean-Baptiste Lully influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Which artists did Jean-Baptiste Lully influence?

• Jean-Philippe Rameau — Rameau's operas consciously continue and modernize the tragédie en musique Lully invented — the debate 'Lullistes vs Ramistes' framed his whole career.
• François Couperin — Couperin's L'Apothéose de Lully (1725) is a written monument to his French model — Lully carried to Parnassus in music.
• Georg Philipp Telemann — Telemann mastered the French orchestral style from Lully's model — his hundreds of ouverture-suites follow the form Lully created.