Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
The first example of the genre is considered to be "Les fâcheux", with words by Molière, performed in honour of Louis XIV at Vaux-le-Vicomte, the residence of Nicolas Fouquet, in 1661. The music and choreography were by Pierre Beauchamp, but Jean-Baptiste Lully later contributed a sung courante for Act I, scene 3. Molière, Lully and Beauchamp collaborated on several more examples of "comédie-ballet", culminating in the masterpiece of the genre, "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme", in 1670, and the scenically spectacular "Psyché" of January 1671, a "tragicomédie et ballet" which went well beyond the earlier examples of the genre.