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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Cacher l’Art par l’Art lui même. Conceal Art by Art itself.
— Lettre à Houdar de la Motte, 1727.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)
- Fame61.5
- Momentum15.0
- Musicians rank#240
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Updated 2026-06-08
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.
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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…
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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In f-major, c* [a C major chord] is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f* [a F major chord].
— ibid, p. 14.
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- Une symphonie imaginaire2005
- Ballet Suites2005
- Pièces de clavecin, volume 22004
- Règne Amour: Love Songs from the Operas2004
- Le Berger Fidèle, Thétis & pièces en concerts2004
- Six Concerts en sextuor2003
- Pièces de clavecin / Nouvelles suites de Pièces de clavecin2003
- Pieces de clavecin en concerts (Trio Arcangelo Corelli)2003
- Orchestral Suites from / Suites pour orchestre de Dardanus - Le temple de la gloire2003
- Rameau and Couperin: Dances and Suites2003
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Historical24.6
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Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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