LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Nach mehreren Misserfolgen gelang es Rameau 1733 sein erstes lyrisches Werk aufzuführen, das Operndrama Hippolyte et Aricie. Dieses Werk steht in der Tradition von Jean-Baptiste Lully, aber es übertrifft bei weitem den bisher gewohnten musikalischen Reichtum. Ein Zeitgenosse meinte, „diese Oper enthält genügend Musik um daraus zehn zu schaffen“.
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WOLF ROBERT PETER, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Comédie lyrique Les Paladins (1760) : A Critical Edition and Study (thèse). Yale University 1977. [2 v. xii-601 p., tables, fac-similés, musique, transcriptions, appendix, bibliographie, RILM, 76 : 500dd]
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Menuet en Rondeau is taken from the second volume of Rameau's "Pieces for Clavier." Rameau wrote 65 pieces for harpsichord. He did not break with tradition here. Instead he followed the established French tradition for the keyboard genre. By bringing the melody and bass closer together by an octave this piece fits rather nicely on the guitar.
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Rousseau was a major participant in the second great quarrel which erupted over Rameau's work, the so-called Querelle des Bouffons of 1752-54, which pitted French tragédie en musique against Italian opera buffa. This time Rameau was accused of being out of date and his music too complicated in comparison with the simplicity and "naturalness" of a work like Pergolesi's La serva padrona.[20] In the mid-1750s Rameau criticised Rousseau's contributions to the musical articles in the Encyclopédie which led him into a quarrel with the leading philosophes d'Alembert and Diderot.[21] As a result, Rameau became a character in Diderot's - then unpublished - dialogue Le neveu de Rameau (Rameau's Nephew).
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Sixty of Rameau's 65 harpsichord pieces were written by 1728, with a final group appearing in 1741. Published in 1706, 1724 and around the year 1728, these collections, with the final collection of 1741, consist of genre pieces and dances, in the established tradition of French composers for the keyboard.
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Four months before his death, Rameau was granted a patent of nobility by King Louis XV. He died just before his 81st birthday, and was buried at his parish church at St. Eustache.
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