The Centralization of Music in the Reign of Louis XIV

artistic activity through a group of royal academies. The king earnestly wanted his reign to be famous for its artistic brilliance, and he believed that musicians, poets, painters, sculptors, and architects could preserve his great deeds for posterity. Louis aspired not only to surpass the achievements of classical antiquity but to establish France's artistic supremacy in Europe. Attaining artistic self-sufficiency and preponderance was consistent with the underlying assumptions of Colbertian mercantilism and with Louis' ambitions to dominate Europe. The

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