Jean-Baptiste Lully has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 9 March 2020. Songs played include Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme / Pastorale Comique.

Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista Lulli (November 28, 1632 – March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He took French citizenship in 1661.

Born in Florence, Italy, either the son of a miller or, as Lully claimed, a nobleman, Lully had little early education, musical or otherwise but he did have a natural talent to play the guitar and violin and…