Philippe quinault biography of rory
Philippe quinault biography of rory
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Philippe Quinault (1635-1688)
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Our occasional series RISM A–Z brings us to the letter Q.
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Heinrich Graun, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Tommaso Traetta are some composers associated with the librettist Philippe Quinault (baptized 5 June 1635, Paris – 26 November 1688, Paris).
The son of a baker, Quinault first studied law before dedicating himself to poetry.
He wrote many dramas and tragicomedies in the 1650s. By 1666, Quinault was working closely with Lully. When Lully took over leadership of the Académie royale de musique in 1674, he made Quinault his librettist.
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Quinault wrote one libretto to an opera or ballet by Lully per year until his death. This partnership with Lully ushered in the era of the tragédie lyrique.
Quinault’s last opera libretto, Armide (1686), was also his most successful.
It is based on Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). It contains the st