Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Baroque composer who muscled out Lully to become France's opera kingpin in the 1730s. Also the harpsichord virtuoso everyone was talking about, plus a music theorist who actually wrote down how the stuff worked.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau was a French composer and music theorist of the late Baroque era. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin.
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