He took his rival Henri Guichard to court, claiming that the latter had tried to kill him by putting arsenic in his snuff, but his victory was reversed on appeal.
He took his rival Henri Guichard to court, claiming that the latter had tried to kill him by putting arsenic in his snuff, but his victory was reversed on appeal. The king supported him in spite of his homosexuality, which became a public scandal, even after his collaborator, Phillipe Quinault, was accused of slandering the kings mistress in his Isis. FTP, identify this French composer, who wrote music for a number of Molieres comedies before turning to sacred music, who was conducting his Te Deum in 1687 when his practice of striking his foot with a pointed cane to mark the beat led to him getting gangrene and dying of blood poisoning.
He took his rival Henri Guichard to court, claiming that the latter had tried to kill him by putting arsenic in his snuff, but his victory was reversed on appeal.
Jean-Baptiste {Lully}