Les Fragments de Lully

Les Fragments de Lully is a collection of pieces for which Lully had written the music and for which different authors had supplied the words. It was given in its first form on 10 September 1702, and this type of spectacle coupé (see eighteenth-century volume for spectacle coupé) proved so popular that it was kept in the repertory, although new pieces were substituted for the old ones from time to time. In its first form, Les Fragments de Lully was introduced by a prologue taken from Les Fêtes…