Achille et Polixene, tragédie dont le prologue & les quatre derniers actes

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Achille et Polixene, Jean-Baptiste Lully's last opera, premiered on 7 November 1687, eight months after Lully's death on March 22 of that year. Since the composer had only finished the overture and first act, the score was completed by Pascal Colasse, Lully's secretary and student, to a text by Jean Galbert de Campistron based on events in Virgil's Aeneid.

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score (2 p.L., xxxviii, 316 p. 20cm.)

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Collasse, Pascal, 1649-1709; Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 & Campistron, Jean Galbert de, 1656-1723 1687.

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  • Main Title: Achille et Polixene, tragédie dont le prologue & les quatre derniers actes
  • Uniform Title: Achille et Polyxène
  • Added Title: Aeneid

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Achille et Polixene, Jean-Baptiste Lully's last opera, premiered on 7 November 1687, eight months after Lully's death on March 22 of that year. Since the composer had only finished the overture and first act, the score was completed by Pascal Colasse, Lully's secretary and student, to a text by Jean Galbert de Campistron based on events in Virgil's Aeneid.

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score (2 p.L., xxxviii, 316 p. 20cm.)

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  • UNT Catalog No.: b1365583 | View in Discover
  • OCLC: 37139876
  • RISM No.: RISM A/I, C 3383
  • Other: LWV 74
  • Call Number: M1500.C66 A2 1687
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc50

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Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection

The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection includes almost 30 rare 17th and 18th-century scores of operas and ballets by the 17th-century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons.

Virtual Music Rare Book Room

The Virtual Music Rare Book Room is composed primarily of digitized materials held in the UNT Music Library's Edna Mae Sandborn Music Rare Book Room. The collection is particularly strong in eighteenth-century French opera, due in large part to the influence of musicologist Lloyd Hibberd on the development of the collection.

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  • 1687

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  • Oct. 31, 2008, 1:20 a.m.

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  • June 17, 2016, 10:05 a.m.

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Collasse, Pascal, 1649-1709; Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 & Campistron, Jean Galbert de, 1656-1723. Achille et Polixene, tragédie dont le prologue & les quatre derniers actes, score, 1687; Paris. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc50/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.

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