Free Lully sheet music
3 Lully scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryJean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Florentine-born composer who became the absolute ruler of French music under Louis XIV, holding a royal monopoly so tight that no opera could be staged in France without his permission. He effectively invented French opera, and the French overture with it, and he conducted by pounding a long staff on the floor to keep time. In 1687 he struck his own foot with it during a performance, the wound turned gangrenous, and he refused amputation because it would have ended his dancing. It killed him.
Start with these
The easiest Lully on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Lully rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.