Jean-Baptiste Lully

The controversy waxed fierce for almost a century, and at length, by a decree of the French Parliament in 1750, the musicians were declared the victors.

But probably the great glory of the French bagpipe was its introduction into the orchestra by Jean-Baptiste Lully, the founder of legitimate French opera.

This sent a hallmark, so to speak, on the musette.

Louis XIV made Lully master of the petit violon, who soon surpassed the famous Le 24 violon de roi.

4 and 20 fiddles all in a row, close quote.

His Asus et Galatea was produced on September 6, 1686, and he died on March 22 of the following year.

This applies to border and Northumbrian pipers, as well as to those of the lowlands.

CHAPTER XXIII.

Starting with Jean-Ferry Rebelle.

Rebelle was a famous violinist in his day, a student of Jean-Baptiste Lully, and a composer in the court of King Louis XIV of France.

In 1738, he premiered a ballet called The Elements, and it begins with a seven-minute introduction for the orchestra, and it's not intended to be danced.

Graebel called this section The Chaos and wanted it to depict the universe in the moments before divine creation began its work.

Apparently, it all comes down to one German musicologist writing in English in America in 1947 by the name of Manfred Buchhofer.

His influential book, Music in the Baroque Era, did most of the work needed to make Baroque the label of And the fact that it was already a well-established term in art circles, and that it was virtually the same word in Spanish, French, German, and Italian, certainly helped its rapid adoption.

Marin Marais was a virtuoso player of the viola da gamba, best thought of as an early version or a cousin of the cello, and he studied composition under Jean-Baptiste Lully at the court of Louis XIV.

He eventually became the leading viola da gamba player in France and wrote more music for the instrument than almost anyone in history.

Neil is talking to this guy.

I saw him about these Lully shows, bro.

I can't, I can't do it.

Um, Neil list storm, the merciless meeting.

But look at where a respected Catholic reference work, writing decades later with the whole history in view, eventually landed on this strategy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, writing in nineteen ten, fully aware of Lully, Pico, Reuchlin, and every other Christian scholar who had tried this approach, gives this flat assessment.

It has decidedly no right to be considered as an excellent means to induce the Jews to receive Christianity.

Three centuries of well-meaning Christian scholars tried to baptize this system and use it as a bridge to the gospel.

She didn't.

But look at what the record actually shows.

Pico's attempt got his booklet condemned by papal authority, and the Church's own considered reference literature, generations later having weighed Lully, Pico, Reuchlin, and everyone else who tried this, concluded flatly that the whole strategy doesn't work, because Kabbalah's picture of God isn't close enough to the truth to serve as a bridge to anything.

If the theology were merely mistaken, that would be one thing.

And then you have the venerated masters that are up on the higher level.

You have there Bach, of course Beethoven, Mozart, even Lully is up there.

So many of these, these composers and sort of those are higher, higher to heaven maybe, I'm not sure, but it's an amazing experience.

And of course, Stravinsky, I love it because I'm sitting there and Stravinsky's right off to my left and, you know, my favorite.

They never proposed making me a sub-deacon.

They never carried off my mistress.' The commander made him understand that they were coming to pillage the abbey of the mountain, drink his uncle's wine, and perhaps carry off Mademoiselle St. Ives.' that the little vessel which had set him on shore in brittany had come only to reconnoitre the coast that they were committing acts of hostility without having declared war against france and that the province was entirely exposed to them if this be the case said he they violate the law of nature let me alone i lived a good while among them i am acquainted with their language and i will speak to them i cannot think that they have so wicked a design during this conversation the english fleet approached the huron ran toward it and having jumped into a little boat soon rowed to the admiral's ship and having gone on board asked whether it was true that they were come to ravage the coast without having honestly declared war the admiral and all his crew burst into laughter made him drink some punch and sent him back the ingenuous hercules piqued at this reception thought now of nothing else but beating his old friends for his countrymen and the prior the gentlemen of the neighborhood ran from all quarters and joined them they had some cannon and he discharged them one after the other the english landed and he flew toward them when he killed three of them with his own hands he even wounded the admiral who had made a joke of him the whole militia were animated with his prowess the english returned to their ships and went on board and the whole coast echoed with the shouts of victory long live the king long live the ingenuous hercules every one ran to embrace him every one strove to stop the bleeding of some slight wounds he had received ah said he if mademoiselle st ives were here she would put on a plaster for me the bailiff who had hid himself in his cellar during the battle came to pay his compliments like the rest but he was greatly surprised when he heard the ingenuous hercules say to a dozen young men well disposed for his service who surrounded him my friends having delivered the abbey of the mountains is nothing we must rescue a nymph the warm blood of these youths were fired at the expression he was already followed by crowds who repaired to the convent if the bailiff had not immediately acquainted the commandant with their design and he had not sent a detachment after the joyous troop the thing would have been done the huron was conducted back to his uncle and aunt who overwhelmed him with tears and tenderness i see very well said his uncle that you will never be either a sub-deacon or a prior you will be an officer and one still braver than my brother the captain and probably as poor mademoiselle kirkabonne could not stop an incessant flood of tears whilst she embraced him saying he will be killed too like my brother it were much better he were a sub-deacon the huron had during the battle picked up a large purse full of guineas which probably the admiral lost he had no doubt that this purse would buy all lower brittany and above all make mademoiselle st ives a great lady every one persuaded him to repair to versailles to receive the recompense due his service the commandant and the principal officers furnished him with certificates in abundance the uncle and aunt also approved this journey he was to be presented to the king without any difficulty this alone would give him great weight in the province these two good folks added to the english purse a considerable present out of their own savings the huron said to himself when i see the king i will ask mademoiselle st ives of him in marriage and certainly he will not refuse me he set out accordingly amidst the acclamations of the whole district stifled with embraces bathed in tears by his aunt blessed by his uncle and recommending himself to the charming mademoiselle st ives chapter three through seven this is chapters eight through twelve of the sincere huron or l'ingenue this librivox recording is in the public domain chapter eight the huron goes to court sips upon the road with some huguenots the ingenuous hercules took the seymour road in the coach because that was at that time the only conveyance when he came to seymour he was astonished to find the city almost deserted and see several families going away he was told that half a dozen years before seymour contained upwards of fifty thousand inhabitants and that at present there were not six thousand he mentioned this at an inn whilst he stopped several protestants were at table some complained bitterly others trembled with rage others weeping said we abandon our sweet fields we fly our country and why do you fly from your country gentlemen because we must otherwise acknowledge the pope and why not acknowledge him have you no godmothers then that you want to marry for i am told that he is the one that grants this permission ah sir the pope says that he is master of the domains of kings but gentlemen what religion are you of why sir we are for the most part drapers and manufacturers if the pope says he is the master of your clothes and manufactures you do very well not to acknowledge him but as to kings this is their business and why do you trouble yourself with it here a little black man took up the argument and very learnedly set forth the grievances of the company he talked of the revocation of the edict of nantes with so much energy he deplored in so pathetic a manner the fate of fifty thousand fugitive families and of fifty thousand others converted by dragoons that the ingenuous hercules could not refrain from shedding tears whence arises said he that so great a king whose renown expands itself even to the hurons should thus deprive himself of so many hearts that would have loved him and so many arms that would have served him because he has been imposed upon like other great kings replied the little orator he has been made to believe that as soon as he utters a word all people think as he does and that he can make us change our religion, just as his musician Lully in a moment changes the decorations of his opera.

He has not only already lost five or six hundred thousand very useful subjects, but he has turned many of them into enemies, and King William, who is at this time Master of England, has composed several regiments of these identical frenchmen who otherwise would have fought for their monarch such a disaster is the more astonishing as the present pope to whom louis the fourteenth sacrifices a part of his people is his declared enemy a violent quarrel has subsisted between them for near nine years it has been carried so far that france was in hopes at length of casting off the yoke by which it has been kept in subjugation for so many ages to this foreigner and more particularly of not giving him any more money which is the prime business of the affairs of this world it therefore appears evident that this great king has been imposed upon as well with respect to his interest as the extent of his power and that even the magnanimity of his heart has been struck at the huron melted more and more and asked who were the frenchmen who thus deceived a monarch so dear to the hurons they are the jesuits he was answered and particularly father lachaise the king's confessor it is to be hoped that god will one day punish them for it and that they will be driven out as they now drive us Can any misfortune equal ours? Monsieur Lavoie besets us on all sides with Jesuits and dragoons.

Well, gentlemen, replied the Huron, who could contain himself no longer, I am going to Versailles to receive the recompense due my services.