# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:41:22.293Z

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description: "He rewrote the rules of harmony in a treatise that made him famous across Europe, then waited until he was nearly 50 to write the operas that would dethrone Lully and ignite riots in the French musical establishment."
tagline: "French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)"
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birthDate: "1683-09-25"
deathDate: "1764-09-12"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jean-Philippe Rameau spent his early years in obscurity until the 1720s, when his Treatise on Harmony (1722) established him as a major music theorist and his harpsichord masterpieces circulated throughout Europe, placing him alongside François Couperin as France's leading keyboard composer. He was almost 50 when he finally turned to opera, the genre on which his reputation chiefly rests today. His 1733 debut, Hippolyte et Aricie, caused a stir and drew fierce attacks from Lully's supporters for its revolutionary harmonic language. Rameau's dominance in French opera was soon acknowledged, but by the 1750s he found himself attacked again—this time as an "establishment" figure by advocates of Italian opera during the Querelle des Bouffons. His music fell out of fashion by the century's end and wasn't seriously revived until the 20th century, when performers and scholars rediscovered the composer who had redrawn the boundaries of Baroque music.