Abstract
Jean-Baptiste Lully spotted the potential talent of Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747) when Rebel was a boy of eight singing in the Chapelle Royale. Lully took him on as a protégé, teaching him the violin and composition. By 1699 Rebel was leading the orchestra of the Académie Royale de Musique and within six years had became one of the celebrated Vingt-Quatre Violons du Roy, finally rising to become Batteur de Mesure at the Opéra in 1720. Earlier, in 1713, he published his 12 Sonates à violon seul mellées de plusieurs récits pour la viole comprising six Italianate sonates followed by six French dance suites using double stops and tremolo passages and some elaborate three-part textures in the viol recitatives. He was most famous as the creator of the genre of choreographed and programmatic symphonies, starting with Caprice in 1711, which was danced by the much fêted Françoise Prévost, danseuse seule at...
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