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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1plauded. It is true that the singer gave the grand old song with due majesty of declamation and fascination of character; but the truth of the aria in itself had something to do with the triumph.
3A number of Italian pieces, which he had composed in his leisure moments, were collected and published by one of his sons in 1702, under the title of Fragments. From the period that Lulli took the direction of the Grand Opera, passed his time in composing and, to the distress of his wife Madeleine, enjoying the society of convivial friends, he seems to have abandoned altogether his once-delightful violin. "Never," says Moreri, "did any man carry so far the art of violin-playing; and in his hands this instrument was more agreeable than in any others, however clever." Lulli made a considerable number of pupils, among the more remarkable of whom we may name Lalouette, Lalande,* Louis and Jean Louis Lulli,* Colosse,* Marais,* Desmarest,* Gervais,* Verdier, Baptiste, Joubert, and Rebel. Those with an asterisk to their names had some of their music performed at the Opera after the death of Lulli.
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