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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1In 1686 the King fell dangerously ill, and on his recovery Lulli was ordered to compose a Te Deum. On leading this work he accidentally struck his foot with the cane which he was using, and the wound became so serious that he died of it on the 22nd of March, 1687, at the age of fifty-three. He expired singing one of his own airs, "Il faut mourir pecheur." Santeuil composed an epitaph upon him in six Latin lines, the sense of which is:
3"O Death, we knew that thou wert blind,
4But in striking Lulli thou has proved
5To us that thou art deaf."
7One of Lulli's best pupils, Lalouette, has left a MS. Méthode, or systematic treatise, on the art of violin-playing. In 1836 this MS. was in the possession of the violinist J. B. Cartier; but what has become of it we do not know.
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