Lully, Strauss - Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Jean-Baptiste Lully had come a long way – in both senses – before collaborating with the playwright Molière on the comédie-ballet Le bourgeois gentilhomme in 1670. Born in Florence in 1632, he had moved to France as a teenager to teach Italian to Louis XIV’s cousin Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, the Duchess of Montpensier. Having already joined the service of Louis XIV as a violinist and dancer, in 1653, aged 20, he became compositeur de la musique instrumentale. He took over the direction of La Petite Bande – the smaller ensemble that complemented the 24 Violons du Roy (La Grande Bande) established by Louis XIII – and finally in 1661 was appointed surintendant de la musique du roi.
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