Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
Editions
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste. The Collected Works. Carl B. Schmidt, general editor.
New York: Broude.
In progress, as announced in the Broude 1999 catalogue. Only one volume, of
motets, has appeared (1996). The publisher has no plan to issue further vol-
umes in the near future. - Lully, Jean-Baptiste. Oeuvres complètes.Ed. Henri Prunières et al. Paris,
1930–1972. 11v.
Series discontinued. The operas Cadmus et Hermione, Alceste,and Amadis
were published. Reprint announced in the Broude 1999 catalogue. - Lully, Jean-Baptiste. The “tragédies lyriques” in Facsimile. Prefaces by
François Lesure et al. New York: Broude, 1998–. M1500 .L95.
In progress. To include nine works. Four appeared in 1998: Atys(v.4), Bel-
lérephon(v.7), Persée(v.9), and Acis et Galatée(v.14). Others to be issued are
Thésée, Proserpine, Phaëton, Roland, and Armide.
1124.The “livrets” of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s “tragédies lyriques”: A catalogue
raisonné.Compiled by Carl B. Schmidt. New York: Performers’ Editions, 1995.
xli, 633p. ISBN 0-9439-3050-2. ML134 .L92 S34.
Prints the livrets(libretti) for 15 operas, with indexes of performers, com-
posers, librettists, printers, and cities.
Thematic Catalogues and Worklists
- Schneider, Herbert. Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Werke
von Jean-Baptiste Lully. Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, 15. Tutzing:
Schneider, 1981. 570p. ML134 .L956 S3.
A worklist in date order, with musical incipits, information on manuscripts
and printed sources, librettists, premiere facts, and citations of secondary liter-
ature. Supplemented by Bruce Gustafson, “The Lully Labyrinth: Cross Refer-
ences and Misattributions in the Lully Werke-Verzeichnis,” Notes 44–1
(September 1987): 33–39; and Carl B. Schmidt, “Newly Identified Manuscript
Sources for the Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully,” Notes44–1 (September 1987):
7–32.
Bibliographies and Guides to Resources
1126.Lully Web Project.Denton: U. of North Texas, 1997–.
Available at <www.library.unt.edu.> Gives a fact sheet for each work, includ-
ing synopsis and performance history. The Lully bibliography includes mas-
ter’s theses.216 Opera