{"product_id":"21407-lully-jean-baptiste-lambert-michel-autograph-musical-manuscript","title":"Lully, Jean Baptiste. (1632–1687) [Lambert, Michel. (1610 - 1696)] Autograph Musical Manuscript","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eSingle sheet of autograph musical notation, very possibly a manuscript copy from the original manuscript or published work by Michel Lambert, penned in the hand of his son-in-law, the most celebrated composer of the French Baroque, Jean-Baptiste Lully, of whom no other examples of confirmed musical notation are known to exist.  1 page, text and vocal part identified at the head \"2me Couplet,\" nine systems on two sides. Recto seemingly unrelated to that on verso, being the second stanza of the anonymous poem \"Je suis aymé de celle que j'adore,\" as set by Michel Lambert as it appeared in the \u003cspan\u003e\"XXIXe Livre d'airs de differents autheurs [...]\" (Paris 1686):\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eQuand le respect me fait cacher ma flame\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eO témoins importunes de nos doux entretiens,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSes yeux s'instruisent dans les miens,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDe tous les secrets de mon âme ;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEt me font connoistre les siens.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe verso with text beginning \"Philis a des attrais il est vray...\".  The recto inscribed at left edge in a different ink and somewhat later unknown hand (translated), \"Score written by the hand of Mr. de Lully\", with red wax seal remnant with unidentified family crest of three left-facing horse heads, and a pasted 1923 Drouot auction label.  9.6 x 6.5 inches; 24.5 x 16.5 cm. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eMadeleine Lambert was the daughter of the composer Michel Lambert; she married \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJean-Baptiste \u003cspan class=\"match\"\u003eLully\u003c\/span\u003e in 1662. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile there are no known musical autographs of Jean-Baptiste Lully, there \u003cem\u003eare\u003c\/em\u003e autograph manuscript annotations in his hand on documents which are available for comparison and upon review of those documents, we note a distinct resemblance between those and the letter formations in our manuscript, in particular with the letters “q”, “r”, “t”, “y”.  \u003c\/span\u003eAt the same time, the musical notation on the present page is decisively \u003cem\u003enot \u003c\/em\u003ethat of any of the 150 known period \u003cem\u003ecopyist\u003c\/em\u003e hands in the database assembled by Laurent Guillo of IReMus. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e Without any known exemplars of Lully's musical writing, it is indeed impossible to positively authenticate the attribution here. However, given all of the above, as well as the date of the source composition and the profound connection of Lully with Lambert and his music, it seems certainly an eminently plausible conclusion that this may, in fact, be the only surviving musical manuscript in the hand of the most important composer of the French Baroque.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"match\"\u003eWe are very grateful for the generous assistance of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePascal Denechau and Laurent Guillo of IReMus in the cataloging of this item.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093780517023,"sku":"21407","price":35000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Lambert_Michel_Lully_Musical_Manuscript_Page_21407a.jpg?v=1738009233","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/21407-lully-jean-baptiste-lambert-michel-autograph-musical-manuscript","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}