Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 150

A popular history of music, musical instruments, ballet, and opera, from St. Ambrose to Mozart, 1888

8 lines. Read by computer on 29 September 2026. Printed page 134. See the scan on archive.org.

1While these attempts at the foundation of a lyric drama were going on, another musician was pushing his way to the
3![Portrait of Jean Baptiste Lully](https://example.com/jean_baptiste_lully.png)
5Fig. 94.—Jean Baptiste Lully (after the portrait by Mignard, engraved by Roullet, seventeenth century).
7front, whose abilities and good fortune were to throw those of Cambert into the shade. This was Jean Baptiste Lully (fig. 94).

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