Jan McDaniel informs us:
>This choral work was composed for the baptism of Lully's son, and the
>godfather was none other than Louis XIV himself. It was a subsequent
>performance during which the fatal accident occurred, however.
Good thing it occurred during a subsequent performance lest the magnificent
Te Deum be transformed into a mere Lullybye...
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