LULLI, a composer of operatic music, born in Provence; was director of the French opera in the reign of Louis XIV.
At this time, in his unsettled state of mind, he worshipped Bellini, and exalted the Italian song above all other forms of operatic music.
He perceived that the composers had catered too much to the vanity of singers and had permitted a richly ornamental style of song, antagonistic to broad dramatic expression, to become the type of operatic music.
Was it not a childhood meet for him who was one day to project tragedies before undreamed of on the lyric stage, and to cut loose from all the traditions of operatic music?
A complete History of the Opera would include a history of operatic music, a history of operatic dancing, a history of the chief operatic theatres, and a history of operatic society.
Beaumarchais, the musical composer, his bon-mot on operatic music, i.
But the cultivation of the art of song exercised the highest of all influences on operatic music.
We shall therefore find the church music of the latter half of the eighteenth century composed of the same materials as operatic music, and exercising much the same effect.
The decadence of operatic music, which Metastasio bitterly laments (Vol.
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