 French opera began at the court of Louis XIV of France with Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Cadmus et Hermione" (1673), although there had been various experiments with the form before that, most notably "Pomone" by Robert Cambert.Lully and his librettist Quinault created "tragédie en musique", a form in which dance music and choral writing were particularly prominent.Lully's most important successor was Rameau.