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Jean-Philippe Rameau ( French: [ʒɑ̃filip ʁamo]; 25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, [1] he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading ...
May 31, 2024 · Jean-Philippe Rameau was a French composer of the late Baroque period, best known today for his harpsichord music, operas, and works in other theatrical genres but in his lifetime also famous as a music theorist.
Orchestral music (overtures, intermezzos, dances etc) from operas & stage works by Jean-Philippe Rameau.01. Zais: Overture 00:0002. Les Boreades: Overture 05...
This is a complete list of operas by the French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764).
Naissance et enfance à Dijon. Jean-Philippe Rameau a débuté dans la carrière d'organiste à l' église Saint-Étienne de Dijon. Septième enfant d'une famille qui en compte onze (il a cinq sœurs et cinq frères), il est baptisé le 25 septembre 1683, jour même de sa naissance, dans la collégiale Saint-Étienne de Dijon 5.
Nov 29, 2018 · Jean-Philippe Rameau (b. 1683–d. 1764) was trained as a keyboardist. Most of his early career was as a church organist; his best-known job was at Dijon. Rameau continued to compose, publish, and perform keyboard music after moving to Paris in 1722, but from that point on his principal interests became opera and music theory.
A legendary composer who transformed the face of French opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau was ahead of his time, his theories and works inspiring such succeeding operatic innovators as Gluck and Wagner.
Jean-Philippe Rameau, (baptized Sept. 25, 1683, Dijon, France—died Sept. 12, 1764, Paris), French composer and music theorist. Son of an organist, he held organist posts until he was 49.
Although revered as being among the most influential and important French composers of the 18th century, little of Rameau’s music is heard today. Yet his theories on music continue to exert an influence. He had a strangely disjointed career.
May 3, 2023 · May 3, 2023 • A Jean-Philippe Rameau opera, left unfinished at time of his death and recently completed by a musicologist, gets its premiere 280 years later, with extravagant costumes.
