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    Acis et Galatée (Acis and Galatea) is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Unlike most of his operas, which are designated tragédies en musique, Lully called...
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    huge rock that kills Acis and even injures Galatea. Later in the century, Jean-Baptiste Lully composed his opera Acis et Galatée (1686) on the theme....
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    of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into...
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  • composition by George Frideric Handel Acis and Galatea, or Acis et Galatée, a 1686 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully Acis (disambiguation) Galatea (disambiguation)...
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    work to bear the name was Jean-Baptiste Lully's final completed opera Acis et Galatée (1686), although musical works on pastoral themes had already appeared...
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    Achille et Polyxène (1687) (Finished by Pascal Collasse) Pastorale Comique (1657) Les fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus (1672) Acis et Galatée (1686) La...
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    1672 Idylle sur la Paix, text by Racine, at Sceaux, July 16, 1685 Acis et Galatée, pastoral, text by Campistron, chateau of Anet, September 6, 1686 With...
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    (1683); another from the opera Roland (1685); another from the opera Acis et Galatée (1686) Marin Marais (1656–1728): Chaconne in G major for two violas...
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    of choreography. In 1905, he created his first full-length ballet, Acis et Galatée, which was performed by his students and based on a Sicilian legend...
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  • Pascal Collasse, 1687 Acis and Galatea, George Frideric Handel, 1718 Acis et Galatée, Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1686 Actéon, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 1683–1685...
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