Buxtehude composed three D minor variations on this man's aria "Rofilis," and his title characters include a lover of Oriane who sings the aria "Bois epais" while deep in the woods.
Buxtehude composed three D minor variations on this man's aria "Rofilis," and his title characters include a lover of Oriane who sings the aria "Bois epais" while deep in the woods. Feuillet popularized a notation system created by this man's chief choreographer which traced out the steps of the dancer beneath a bar of music at top. The title figure of his most famous work sings the recitative "Enfin, il est en ma puissance" after capturing Renaud, upon whom she casts a love spell. This collaborator of (*) Beauchamps scored the majority of his leads for the distinct high tenor voice of haute-contre, and like Corelli he was the dedicatee of a trio sonata "apotheosis" by Francois Couperin. He composed Amadis and Armide in his genre of "tragedie en musique" and wrote the music for The Bourgeois Gentleman, one of his comedie-ballets written with Moliere. For 10 points, identify this Italian-born master of French Baroque at the court of Louis XIV, who fatally stabbed himself in the foot while keeping time in 1687.
Buxtehude composed three D minor variations on this man's aria "Rofilis," and his title characters include a lover of Oriane who sings the aria "Bois epais" while deep in the woods.
Jean-Baptiste Lully or Giovanni Battista Lulli