Chapter 19

Slow progress of opera to other parts of Europe--origin of French opera--ballets of Boesset--Perrin--Cambert--their first opera--their patent from the king--Lulli--his success and productivity--attention to verbal delivery and the vernacular of the audience--foundations of the French Académie de Musique--opera in Germany--Schütz--Hamburg and Keiser--selection from Lulli--"Roland"--Mattheson.