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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1soon eclipsed the older band, and Lulli entered more and more into the favour of the King.
3He now composed the music for several plays and ballets, in which Louis himself sometimes took a part, as did many of the ladies and gentlemen of the Court; and brilliant fêtes and theatrical performances at Versailles were of frequent occurrence. Lulli became at the same time both an able composer and an excellent actor: he not only wrote the music and ballets for several of Molière's plays, but sometimes took a prominent part in the acting of these pieces. His greatest success lay in comic character, for which he had a very decided disposition. When Molière wished to amuse his guests he was wont to exclaim, turning to Lulli: "Come, Baptista, make us laugh."
5In the year 1672, the King made Lulli director of the Royal Academy of Music (the French Opera), which, until then, had been submitted to the Abbé Perrin, and from that moment dates the birth of the Grand Opera in France. The glory of having created such a splendid institution belongs, however, partly to Philippe Quinault, a member of the French Academy, who wrote the
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