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According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Jean-Philippe Rameau was a French composer - ... organist. harpsichordist, and writer of an important "Treatise on Harmony" and other theoretical works. At 50, began his succession of more than 20 operas and opera-ballets, including "The courtly Indies" (Les Indies galantes) and "Castor and Pollux". His champions and those of the Pergolesi clashed in the so-called "War of the Buffoons" (Guerre des boufons). Other works include chamber music; dance music and other pieces for harpsichord; cantatas and church music.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera, and was attacked by those who preferred Lully's style.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) published his solo keyboard works in three major collections: 1706, 1724 and 1728/29/30. The composer, rumored to have been gaunt and short-tempered, earned greater attention for his 1722 Treatise on Harmony than his music or organ playing had by then achieved. In 1733, shortly before his 50th birthday, his first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie, caused an instant furor comparable to that of the Rite of Spring’s 1913 premiere. Rameau became the most celebrated, if not notorious, composer in pre-Revolutionary France. One either stuck to the past by perpetuating Lully’s traditions or embraced the new: Rameau’s daring harmonies and unexpected forms. André Campra said of Hippolyte et Aricie that it afforded enough invention to make ten other operas.
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After languishing in oblivion, the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) witnessed a renaissance at the beginning of the 20th century. Rameau, one of the towering figures of the Baroque age, left behind a voluminous oeuvre, large parts of which remain unpublished to the present day. An initial attempt to issue his music in print was made in the 18th century by Jacques-Joseph Marie Decroix. The task was then taken up at the beginning of the 20th century by Camille Saint-Saëns, whose edition for Durand was likewise destined to remain incomplete.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau, France's leading musical figure of the mid-18th century, was born in 1683 in Dijon. His early music training began there with his father, a church organist. However, Rameau entered adult life not as a musician but a lawyer. When his law career failed, he traveled briefly in 1701 throughout northern Italy as a violinist and organist before settling first at Avignon and later at Clermont-Ferrand to play organ and teach. There he began composing works for the harpsichord and for church use. In 1705, he moved to Paris, hoping to establish himself in Europe's most sophisticated city as a composer and performer.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau, the leading French composer of the baroque period, was born in Dijon, France on September 25, 1683. He was a contemporary of Bach, Couperin, Handel and Domenico Scarlatti. He collaborated with Voltaire on several projects. Rameau received his early music training from his father, a professional organist. Rameau was a child prodigy, performing music of every type of by the age of seven. At the age of 18, he studied briefly in Milan.
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