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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1libretto for most of Lulli's operas. The latter are very numerous: in fifteen years he wrote no less than nineteen grand operas; and whilst he reigned supreme at the Royal Academy, no other composer's works were allowed to see the light. The sarcastic Boileau said to him one day: "You are not only the first, but the only musician in France!" Lulli appears also to have shown much jealousy towards Corelli when he visited Paris, and did not use any efforts to make his stay there agreeable. Armide is considered one of his finest compositions, and with regard to his religious music, Madame de Sévigné writes that "she does not think there is finer music in heaven." Our national anthem has been ascribed to him, but erroneously; having been composed in 1607 by Dr. John Bull, organist to James I., and the words by Ben Jonson: it was sung in England many years before Lulli was born. Persée is another of his best-known works.
3Lulli's music is occasionally performed in Paris and in London. As late as the year 1856 one of the songs from his Persée was sung by Madame Viardot-Garcia at a cheap Orchestral Concert at St. Martin's Hall, and was most riotously ap-
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