Here is an excerpt from an article titled "Some Forerunners of The Lully Opera" by Donald Jay Grout. Quote: Unless we are willing to assume that the French public of the late 17th century was extraordinarily easy to please - a supposition hardly tenable -- then we must admit that there is more to Lully's operas than greets the musician's ear. Anyone who plays through the whole score of a Lully opera is likely to emerge from that experience (if he survives it at all) with a confus [...]
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