Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and music theorist (1683-1764) · France · Musicians · Died at 80
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Something wrong?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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Attribué à Joseph Aved, Portrait de Jean-Philippe Rameau (vers 1728) - 001
Cochin Décoration des la salle de spectacle Versailles 1745 colorized
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Performance 1745 of La princesse de Navarre by Rameau - NGO3p859
Plaque commémorative Jean-Philippe Rameau Saint-Eustache
Acante et Cèphise
Allée Jean-Philippe Rameau, Rennes, 2022
Castor et Pollux de RameauIn their own words 2
, Cacher l’Art par l’Art lui même. Conceal Art by Art itself.
In f-major, c* [a C major chord] is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f* [a F major chord].
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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 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.
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