This article contains a list of the works of

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...

(LWV); also lists of the dance-forms and instruments he frequently was to use.

Works by Lully (''Lully-Werke-Verzeichnis'')

The catalogue was published in 1981 by Herbert Schneider (''Chronologisch-Thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Werke von Jean-Baptiste Lully'').

Works by genre

Operas (Tragédies en musique)

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Cadmus et Hermione ''Cadmus et Hermione'' is a ''tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The French-language libretto is by Philippe Quinault, after Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. It was first performed on 27 April 1673 by the Paris Op ...

'' (1673) *'' Alceste'' (1674) *''

Thésée ''Thésée'' (; ) is a ''tragédie en musique'', an early type of French opera, in a prologue and five acts with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. It was first performed on 11 ...

'' (1675) *'' Atys'' (1676) *''

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'' (1677) *''

Psyché Psyche (''Psyché'' in French) is the Greek term for "soul" (ψυχή). Psyche may also refer to: Psychology * Psyche (psychology), the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious * ''Psyche'', an 1846 book about the unconscious by Car ...

'' (1678) *'' Bellérophon'' (1679) *'' Proserpine'' (1680) *''

Persée ''Persée'' (''Perseus'') is a tragédie lyrique with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault, first performed on 18 April 1682 by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. Roles Synopsis ACT I: The Pal ...

'' (1682) *'' Phaëton'' (1683) *'' Amadis'' (1684) *''

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'' (1685) *'' Armide'' (1686) *''

Achille et Polyxène ''Achille et Polyxène'' (''Achilles and Polyxena'') is a tragédie lyrique containing a prologue and five acts based on Virgil's ''Aeneid'' with a French libretto by Jean Galbert de Campistron. The opera's overture and first act were composed by ...

'' (1687) (Finished by

Pascal Collasse Pascal Collasse (or Colasse) (22 January 1649 (baptised) – 17 July 1709) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Rheims, Collasse became a disciple of Jean-Baptiste Lully during the latter's domination of the French operatic stage ...

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Pastorales

*''Pastorale Comique'' (1657) *''Les fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus'' (1672) *''

Acis et Galatée ''Acis et Galatée'' (''Acis and Galatea'') is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Unlike most of his operas, which are designated '' tragédies en musique'', Lully called this work a '' pastorale-héroïque'', because it was on a pastoral theme an ...

'' (1686)

Ballets

*''La raillerie'', or ''Mockery'', (1659) *''La revente des habits du ballet et comédie'' (1661) *''L'impatience'' (1661) *''Les saisons'' (1661) *''Les arts'' (1663) *''Les noces de village'' (1663) *''Les amours desguisés'' (1664) *''Palais d'Alcine'' (1664) *''Le naissance de Vénus'' (1665) *''Les gardes'' (1665) *''Mascarade du capitaine'' (1665) *''Petit ballet de Fontainebleau'' (1665) *''Les muses'' (1666) *''Le carnaval'' (1668) *''Flore'' (1669) *''La jeunesse'' (1669) *''Les jeux pythiens'' (1670) *''Ballet des nations'' (1670) in ''

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'' (, translated as ''The Bourgeois Gentleman'', ''The Middle-Class Aristocrat'', or ''The Would-Be Noble'') is a five-act ''comédie-ballet'' – a Play (theatre), play intermingled with music, dance and singing – wri ...

'' written by

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world ...

*''Le triomphe de l'amour'' (1681) *''Le temple de la paix'' (1685)

Ballets written with others

*''Mascarade de la foire de St-Germain'' (1652) *''Les proverbes'' (1654) *''Le temps'' (1654) *''Les plaisirs'' (1655) *''Les bienvenus'' (1655) *''Psyché ou la puissance de l'amour'' (1656) *''Les galanteries du temps'' (1657) *''Les plaisirs troublés'' (1657) *''Alcidiane'' (LWV 9, 1658, with Boësset) *''Le triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes'' (1666)

Comedies (Comédies)

*''L'Impromptu de Versailles'' (1663) *''Le Mariage forcé'' (1664) *''L'Amour médecin'' (1665) *''Le Sicilien'' (1667) *''Georges Dandin'' (1668) *''

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ''Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'' is a three-act ''comédie-ballet''—a ballet interrupted by spoken dialogue—by Molière, first presented on 6 October 1669 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors. ...

'' (1669) *''Les Amants Magnifiques'' (1670) *''La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas'' (1671)

Comédie-ballets

*''Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée'' (1664) *''La Princesse d'Elide'' (1664) *''

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'' (, translated as ''The Bourgeois Gentleman'', ''The Middle-Class Aristocrat'', or ''The Would-Be Noble'') is a five-act ''comédie-ballet'' – a Play (theatre), play intermingled with music, dance and singing – wri ...

'' (1670)

Comedies cowritten with Lully

*''Les fâcheux'' (1661)

Tragédie-ballets

*''Psyché'' (1671)

Divertissements

*''Le Grand Divertissement de Versailles'' (1668) in Georges Dandin *''Le Divertissement de Chambord'' (1669) in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac *''Le Divertissement Royal'' (1670) in Les Amants Magnifiques *''Idylle sur la Paix'' (1685)

Eclogues (Églogues)

*''La grotte de Versailles'' (1668)

Interludes (Intermèdes)

*''Les noces de Pélée et de Thétis'' (1654) *''Xerxes'' (1660) *'' Hercule amoureux'' (1662) *''Oedipe'' (1664)

Grands motets

''in order of composition:'' *'' Jubilate Deo omnis terra'' (Psalm 100), LWV 77/16 (1660) *'' Miserere mei Deus'' (Psalm 51), LWV 25 (1664) *''O lachrymae fideles'', LWV 26 (1664) *''Plaude laetare Gallia'', LWV 37 (1668) *''

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'', LWV 55 (1677) *'' De profundis clamavi ad te'' (Psalm 130) in G Minor, LWV 62 (1683) *'' Dies irae'' in G Minor, LWV 64/1 (1683) *Canticle: ''Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel'', LWV 64/2 (1683) *'' Quare fremuerunt'' (Psalm 2), LWV 67 (1684) *'' Exaudiat te Dominus'' (Psalm 20), LWV 77/15 (1684) *'' Notus in Judaea Deus'' (Psalm 76), LWV 77/17 (1685)

Petits motets

''in alphabetical order:'' *''

Anima Christi The "Anima Christi" (Latin for ‘Soul of Christ’) is a Catholic prayer to Jesus of medieval origin. History For many years the prayer was popularly believed to have been composed by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, as he puts it at the beginning ...

'', LWV 77/1 (1684) *''Ave caeli munus supernum'' à 3, LWV 77/2 (1684) *''

Dixit Dominus Psalm 110 is the 110th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "The said unto my Lord". In Latin, it is known as Dixit Dominus ("The Lord Said"). It is considered both a royal psalm and a messianic psalm. ...

'' (Psalm 109), LWV 77/3 *''Domine salvum fac regem'', LWV 77/14 (1670) *''Exaudi Deus deprecationem'', LWV 77/5 *'' Laudate pueri Dominum'' (Psalm 112), LWV 77/7 (1685) *''O dulcissime Domine'', LWV 77/9 (1685) *''Omnes gentes plaudite'', LWV 77/10 *''O sapientia in misterio'', LWV 77/11 *Marian antiphon: '' Regina caeli laetare'', LWV 77/12 (1684) *Marian antiphon: ''

Salve regina The "Salve Regina" (, ; meaning 'Hail Queen'), also known as the "Hail Holy Queen", is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. The Salve Regina ...

'', LWV 77/13 (1684)

Other works

*''Air de tendre et courante'' *''Dialogue de la guerre avec la paix'' (1655) *''Première marche des mousquetaires'' (1658) *''Courage, amour, la paix est faite'' (1661) *''Douce et charmante paix'' (1661) *''Ingrate bergère'' (1664) *''Qui les saura, mes secrètes amours'' (1664) *''Branles'' (1665) *''Trios pour le coucher du roi'' (1665) *''Belle inhumaine, soulagez la peine'' (1665) *''Savez-vous bien, la belle'' (1665) *''La langueur des beaux yeux'' (1666) *''Que vous connaissez peu trop aimable Climène'' (1666) *''Si je n'ai parlé de ma flamme'' (1666) *''En ces lieux, je ne vois que des promenades'' (1668) *''Ah, qu'il est doux de se rendre à l'empire de l'Amour'' (1668) *''Le printemps ramène la verdure'' (1668) *''Depuis que l'on soupire sous l'amoureux empire'' (1668) *''Marches et batteries de tambour'' (1670) *''Sans mentir on est bien misérable'' (1671) *''Marche'' (1672) *''Marches pour le régiment de Savoie'' (1685) *''Pièces de symphonies, Airs pour Mme la Dauphine'' (1683) *''Airs pour le carrousel de Monseigneur'' (1686) *''Il faut mourir, pécheur'' (1687) *''Gigue'' *''Marches dont la marche des dragons du Roi, La marche du Prince d'Orange'' *''Marche des mousquetaires noirs'' *''Marche des mousquetaires gris'' *''Aunque prodigoas'' *''Soca per tutti'' *''A la fin petit Desfarges'' *''D'un beau pêcheur, la pêche malheureuse'' *''Un tendre coeur'' *''Non vi è più bel piacer'' *''Le printemps, aimable Sylvie'' *''Tous les jours cent bergères'' *''Viens, mon aimable bergère'' *''Nous mêlons toute notre gloire'' *''Pendant que ces flambeaux'' *''Venerabilis barba capucinorum''

Apocryphal composition(s)

French sources widely attribute to Lully the composition of the British patriotic anthem

God Save the Queen "God Save the King" is the national and/or royal anthem of the United Kingdom, most of the Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown Dependencies. The author of the tune is unknown and it may originate in plainchant, bu ...

: the sole ultimate source of the attribution is a 19th-century forgery, the ''Souvenirs'' of the Marquise de Créquy (q.v.). The music of the Provençal Christmas carol ''La Marche des Rois'' is sometimes attributed to Lully, but no document corroborates this attribution. (See article The March of the Kings.) {{Jean-Baptiste Lully * Lully, Jean-Baptiste